How can I install Paint.NET?

paint.NET may run under wine, which you can install via add/remove programs. Then download the paint.NET installer and run it with wine.

Hi bjgj130 !:-)

actually , you are now on a linux platform , not windows !.

so all those windows APPS / games are not supposed to work !

so here is a soloution.

There is an app called Wine http://www.winehq.org/

This program is supposed to run your windows Applications on linux !

you can easily download it / install it in a single command in your terminal !

to do that follow those steps:
open your terminal by clicking applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

then when your terminal opens, type in :

sudo apt-get install wine

it should ask for your password, type it in . Notice that it won't show the '*' while you type, but just type in normally ! this is how it works to avoid people from looking over your shoulder !:-)

after the apt gets your program and installs it, you can close the terminal either by typing exit, or clicking the X button !

now it's time to run your Wine !

click on applications -> accessories -> winefile

This will show you something like the old "winfile" !

simply browse to your setup .exe for your pgoram !:-), and do everything like you did it on windows !

btw download paint.net from here:
http://www.getpaint.net/download.html
meanwhile if you have any doubt about this apps' working...,
Please have a look at http://appdb.winehq.org for app compatibility...

Cheers,

br,

Bhavani Shankar.

Bhavani Shankar, thanks for the step by step thing!
That was very helpful!!!

But, its not working....
I installed the Wine from the terminal, but its not in my acesserys thing...

Why?

Jared/ Bigj

It may be easier to just right click your paint.NET installer, and click "open with other application" then enter the custom command 'wine'. The install process should start then.

...no its not that, it works and i tryed it on divx player, but after i installed the divx it sayed Error on runtime C://windows//...

But paint.NET, it says i have to get SP2 Pack and i tryed but its confusing....

Well, installing divx for windows on Linux is not a good idea,
especially when its readily available in the repos,
"sudo apt-get install avifile-divx-plugin". Linux isnt windows, there
are many programs that do the same thing, I played around with
installing paint.NET, and was only able to get it to install after
installing various software from microsoft first, so 1. you could try
out a program called "winedoors" that assists you in installing these
programs, or 2. Just find an alternative in linux to paint.NET.

bigj130 wrote:
> Question #14711 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/14711
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> bigj130 is still having a problem:
> ...no its not that, it works and i tryed it on divx player, but after i
> installed the divx it sayed Error on runtime C://windows//...
>
> But paint.NET, it says i have to get SP2 Pack and i tryed but its
> confusing....
>
>

Well, i cant get on my computer any more, so im on my Wii, ya...

The graghic thingy wont work, and sends me to the termanle, and i have a back up of it, but i forgot the comand!

Sooo..
I was going to re-install Ubuntu, and back up all my programs on a flash drive like i did 18 times in 3 mounths, but i cant find the Ubuntu CD i got from the web site...

The only bad thing about Ubuntu is the install ment and how Window programes dont work with it, and so i have to install wine, and wind windows and other stuff, to try to get some of my windows programes on...

Is there a # i could call for support?

Bigj130,

Canonical, the company which supports the Ubuntu project, does provide telephone support contracts but they are primarily aimed at businesses (and with a price tag to match): http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid

If there are particular applications for Microsoft Windows which you cannot replace with Linux alternatives, you may get better results from either Dual-booting your computer (having both Microsoft Windows and Ubuntu Linux installed on separate partitions of the same PC) or running Microsoft Windows in a Virtual Machine using software such as VMWare or VirtualBox.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualMachines

Good luck,

Chris

There is a port of Paint.NET to mono. It is incomplete, but may be of use to you: http://code.google.com/p/paint-mono/

You sould be able to get a new official CD from http://shipit.ubuntu.com It'll be the new 7.10 release.

i have made package for hardy.
My package works only with hardy herron (not gutsy gibbon). I'm don't know what is the best way to find out dependencies, so i have by hand pushed to "debian\control" all packages libmono-*, but it's not correct solution.
According to http://code.google.com/p/paint-mono/ working paint-mono best with svn version of mono, but in hardy repository is older version, therefore this version of paint-mono can't save image to file.

so if you want to see it yourself u can add my PPA repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list and install..

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/xmlich02/ubuntu hardy main
sudo apt-get install paint-mono

aww, im using gimp now!
:P

Gimps better!
:D

Gimp might be better but for some trivial stuff it's not very friendly (drawing a circle in gimp, takes a few non-trivial steps!).

Josef,
I added the line to my repositories and i get this when trying to apt-get install paint-mono:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  paint-mono: Depends: mono-tools-locales but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

when i try to install mono-tools-locales i get this:
Package mono-tools-locales is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package mono-tools-locales has no installation candidate

any idea?
(using xubuntu 8.04)

Please try if installing the

mono-tools-gui
and
mono-tools-devel

packages resolve your issue.

Hope this helps

i installed the packages you mentioned and run sudo make:

yuka@yuka:~/paint-mono-read-only/src$ sudo make
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/yuka/paint-mono-read-only/src'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/yuka/paint-mono-read-only/src'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/yuka/paint-mono-read-only/src/Resources.mui'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/yuka/paint-mono-read-only/src/Resources.mui'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/yuka/paint-mono-read-only/src/PdnRepair'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/yuka/paint-mono-read-only/src/PdnRepair'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/yuka/paint-mono-read-only/src/StylusReader'
make pre-all-local-hook prefix=/usr/local
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/yuka/paint-mono-read-only/src/StylusReader'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/yuka/paint-mono-read-only/src/StylusReader'
mkdir -p bin/Release/
make RELEASE_AND_PACKAGE_ANY_CPU_BeforeBuild
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/yuka/paint-mono-read-only/src/StylusReader'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/yuka/paint-mono-read-only/src/StylusReader'
gmcs -noconfig -codepage:utf8 -warn:4 -optimize+ -debug -define:DEBUG "-define:TRACE" -out:bin/Release/PaintDotNet.StylusReader.dll -target:library './AssemblyInfo.cs' './IStylusReaderHooks.cs' './StylusAsyncPlugin.cs' './StylusReader.cs' -r:System -r:System.Drawing -r:System.Windows.Forms -r:../Microsoft.Ink/Microsoft.Ink.dll
error CS0006: cannot find metadata file `System.Windows.Forms'
Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings
make[1]: *** [bin/Release/PaintDotNet.StylusReader.dll] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/yuka/paint-mono-read-only/src/StylusReader'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

i installed monodevelop, run ./configure, make, make install and it works!
i tried to remove monodevelop, to see if it's needed and got this:

** (/usr/local/lib/paintdotnet/PaintDotNet.exe:15475): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from /usr/local/lib/paintdotnet/PdnLib.dll could not be loaded:
     Assembly: System.Windows.Forms (assemblyref_index=0)
     Version: 2.0.0.0
     Public Key: b77a5c561934e089
The assembly was not found in the Global Assembly Cache, a path listed in the MONO_PATH environment variable, or in the location of the executing assembly (/usr/local/lib/paintdotnet).

** (/usr/local/lib/paintdotnet/PaintDotNet.exe:15475): WARNING **: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies.

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'PaintDotNet.Startup' from assembly 'PaintDotNet, Version=3.0.3109.30001, Culture=neutral'.
yuka@yuka:~/paint-mono-read-only/src$ sudo aptitude install monodevelop

I reinstall monodevelop and it's working again.
i run it from the CLI and get some weird messages, and I wonder if it's normal:

-----HERE------
Got System.Drawing.Rectangle[] get_ClipRectangles() and System.Windows.Forms.Hwnd ObjectFromHandle(IntPtr)
-------Finished--------
SingleInstanceManager.SingleInstaceManager: Not implemented
UI.SetControlRedrawImpl: Not implemented
PORT: HideHorizontalScrollBar missing
SingleInstanceManager.SetWindow: Not implemented
SingleInstanceManager.FilterMessage: Not implemented
Could not get XIM
Resolutions: 0 0

on ubuntu, 9.04:
I've installed:
mono
mono-common
mono-devel
monodevelop
mono-tools-gui
mono-tools-devel

And I still get this error:
user@dirac:~/Desktop/paintdotnet-0.1.63$ ./configure
Looking for required packages
Checking for revision...
paintdotnet has been configured with
        prefix = /usr/local
        config = RELEASE_AND_PACKAGE_ANY_CPU

so no more ubuntu?