Installing Pinta, a Paint.net clone for Linux on ChromeOS Crostini (Debian Bullseye)

PintaInstallChromeOSCrostini.txt

Following the instructions on https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta


On ChromeOS the default LXC container Penguin is a very minimal install of
Debian 11 Bullseye. It is a good practice to start by doing an apt update and
upgrade, also you may be missing some basic build software, so we will install
several basic software packages to get started:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install -y autotools-dev autoconf-archive build-essential gcc gettext
intltool libgtk-3-dev wget

You need to install Microsoft Dotnet 6.0 SDK, which we will do according to the
instructions: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-debian


cd ~
wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/debian/11/packages-microsoft-prod.deb
-O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0

The Microsoft dotnet SDK collects data on how you use your system, you can
disable this by setting the enviornment variable DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1.
For now, set this in the current shell:
export DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1

Now we can install Pinta.

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta.git

./autogen.sh
sudo make install

In ChromeOS, you should be able to lauch Pinta from the graphical launcher.