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title: Install Pinta on Kubuntu using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of Pinta for on Kubuntu - 🎨 Painting made simple
  🖌️🖼️
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/pinta/kubuntu
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# Install Pinta on **Kubuntu**

# Pinta

[James Carroll (james-carroll)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/james-carroll "View all snaps from James Carroll (james-carroll)")

* [James Carroll (james-carroll)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/james-carroll "View all snaps from James Carroll (james-carroll)")
* [Photo and Video](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=photo-and-video)
* [Utilities](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=utilities)

[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/pinta/kubuntu#install)

#### 🎨 Painting made simple 🖌️🖼️

Pinta is an easy to use image editor.

Pinta aims to be simple but capable; supporting layers and other essential basic utilities for general editing tasks without being burdened by complexity of more advanced tools.

Ideal for touching up screenshots, adding texts to photos, reframing cats; with more advanced essentials like adjusting colour profiles and various other effects.

### Package name

* pinta

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### License

* MIT

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### Last updated

* 20 October 2026 - latest/stable
* 20 October 2026 - gtk3/stable

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### Websites

* [pinta-project.com](https://pinta-project.com/ "https://pinta-project.com/")

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### Contact

* [github.com/JGCarroll](https://github.com/JGCarroll "https://github.com/JGCarroll")

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### Source code

* [github.com/pintaproject/pinta](https://github.com/pintaproject/pinta "https://github.com/pintaproject/pinta")
* [github.com/JGCarroll/pinta-snap](https://github.com/JGCarroll/pinta-snap "https://github.com/JGCarroll/pinta-snap")

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### Report a bug

* [github.com/JGCarroll/pinta-snap/issues](https://github.com/JGCarroll/pinta-snap/issues "https://github.com/JGCarroll/pinta-snap/issues")
* [github.com/pintaproject/pinta/issues](https://github.com/pintaproject/pinta/issues "https://github.com/pintaproject/pinta/issues")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/pinta/kubuntu#report-snap-modal)

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## Enable snaps on Kubuntu and install Pinta

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

If you’re running [Kubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)](https://kubuntu.org/) or later, including [Kubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu) and [Kubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.

Versions of Kubuntu between [14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)](https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-14-04-lts) and [15.10 (Wily Werewolf)](https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-15-10) don’t include *snap* by default, but *snap* can be installed from the command line as follows:

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```

### Install Pinta

To install Pinta, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install pinta
```

### Other popular snaps…

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### More things to do…

#### [Get the snap store](https://snapcraft.io/snap-store)

Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.

#### [Learn more about snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs)

Interested to find out more about snaps? Want to publish your own application? Visit [snapcraft.io](https://snapcraft.io/) now.

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