How To Install gpaint on Debian 10

Learn how to install gpaint on Debian 10 with this tutorial. gpaint is GNU Paint - a small, easy to use paint program for GNOME

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gpaint on Debian 10.

What is gpaint

gpaint is:

This is gpaint (GNU Paint), a small-scale painting program for GNOME, the GNU Desktop Environment. gpaint does not attempt to compete with GIMP, it is just a simple drawing package based on xpaint, along the lines of ‘Paintbrush’ from a popular non-free operating system.

Currently gpaint has the following features:

  • Drawing tools such as ovals, freehand, polygon and text, with fill or shadow for polygons and closed freehand shapes.
  • Cut and paste by selecting irregular regions or polygons.
  • Preliminary print support using gnome-print.
  • Modern, ease-to-use user interface with tool and color palettes.
  • Multiple-image editing in a single instance of the program.
  • All the image processing features present in xpaint.

There are three methods to install gpaint on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gpaint Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gpaint using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gpaint

Install gpaint Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gpaint using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gpaint

Install gpaint Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install gpaint using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gpaint

How To Uninstall gpaint on Debian 10

To uninstall only the gpaint package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gpaint

Uninstall gpaint And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gpaint and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gpaint

Remove gpaint Configurations and Data

To remove gpaint configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gpaint

Remove gpaint configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gpaint configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gpaint

Dependencies

gpaint have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gpaint package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.