Krita-Plugins is a project dedicated to enhence the user experience and set of features of Krita, the painting and image editing application of KOffice, the office suite of the KDE project.

Installation Instruction

To install krita-plugins from source, you will need to install the koffice development (often called koffice-devel or koffice-dev) package, as well as cmake. Refer to your distribution for any help on how to do this.

export KP_PREFIX=/path/to/install
tar -xzf krita-plugins-1.6.4.tar.gz
cd krita-plugins-1.6.4
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=$KP_PREFIX ../
make
make install (or su -c "make install" or sudo "make install" depending on the PREFIX and of your distribution)

KP_PREFIX can be set to the prefix of your KDE installation or to a different directory, in which case you will need to set the environnemnt variable KDEDIRS to the installation directory (either in your shell configuration file, or in ~/.kde/env/somename.sh).

After installation, to quicly test wether the installation has work correctly:

export KDEDIRS=$KDEDIRS:$KP_PREFIX
kbuildsycoca
krita

And you should see the new plugins.