Pinta: in the package installer but not found by synaptic

[Member delix02]

Pinta is a simple graphics program. It is listed in the package installer but nothing gets installed when I tried to pick the program there. I checked for pinta in synaptic but there nothing is found.
Pinta is listed on the debian.org package list as well.
So, what’s the problem ?

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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pinta is certainly available.

can you post your sources please.

the output of

inxi -r

should be sufficient.

[Moderator caprea]

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Here on antix17 pinta is in synaptic and in the package-installer.
Did you update your system or reload synaptic?
Maybe your sources list is wrong?
Post the output of inxi -r .

[Member delix02]

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the moment I’m on an other machine, however it’s the same phaenomenon here.
the output of inxi -r is

Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
deb http://repo.antixlinux.com/testing testing main nosystemd
deb-src http://repo.antixlinux.com/testing testing main nosystemd
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free

I never changed anything in the /etc/apt folder after the installation, so it should be the default I got at that time

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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welcome to the joys of debian “testing”.

pinta was removed at the end of october, according to the debian package tracker.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pinta

[Anonymous]

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Here on antix17 pinta is in synaptic and in the package-installer.
Did you update your system or reload synaptic?

aha, had chosen “testing” repos during installation…

It’s dead, Jim
> 9/6/2011
> I do not understand… why is it dead? Is it because it has reached 1.0 status?

It is dead because I have no desire to work on it, and I was the only one working on it.

Jonathan Pobst (pinta developer)

delix02, although pinta is essentially EOL (has been, for 5+ yrs), the pinta package is currently still present debian’s unstable and stable repositories.

Without messing around your source.list(s), you can visit http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pinta/
and download the debfile via web browser.

After download (optional, but I recommend) use “gdebi” to inspect/check “all dependencies are satisfiable”, then install via gdebi, or via commandline:
sudo dpkg -i pinta_1.6-2_all.deb

caveat:
I am not _recommending_ use of pinta. It was a crash-prone bugger back when I tested it.

[Member delix02]

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thanks for the hints. I never watched the tracker……..
I’ll wait and see what happens with the package before I give it a try.

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