CentOS - Jun 2013 - What method would you suggest for installing the Pinta screenshot editor on CentOS 6.4?

A screenshot editor needs to do a few things - but it must do these three 
things easily and well:

1. Draw curved and straight arrows, dotted or solid line, with various 
end dots and points
2. Draw open circles of various shapes to highlight areas of interest
3. Text easily without having to pre-define a bounding box for the ad-hoc 
text

By far, the most powerful easy-to-use freeware screenshot editor is 
Paint.NET, which isn't on Linux.

On Linux, a distant second place goes to Kolourpaint; and a far distant 
third place to The GIMP (based on ease of performing those three items 
above).

I was told today that Pinta is a Linux replacement for Paint.NET features 
- so I am going to install it to test it out:
 http://www.pinta-project.com

Looking for an RPM ... 
$ uname -a
==> Linux snafu 2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 16 20:59:36 UTC 
2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ yum --noplugins --showduplicates --enablerepo \* --disablerepo c6-media,
\*-source,\*debug\* provides "*/pinta"
==> nothing found

http://pkgs.repoforge.org ==> pinta not found
http://pkgs.org ==> finds pinta in Fedora packages 17, 18, 19, and Rawhide
http://pbone.net ==> finds pinta in Fedora packages 14,15,16,17,18, and 19

Pinta source is also available here:
http://pinta-project.com/pinta/download.ashx

Given that information, what avenue would you pick to install Pinta on a 
64-bit CentOS 6.4 laptop to test it out?

On 06/20/2013 08:34 AM, Rock wrote:
> A screenshot editor needs to do a few things - but it must do these three
> things easily and well:
>
> 1. Draw curved and straight arrows, dotted or solid line, with various
> end dots and points
> 2. Draw open circles of various shapes to highlight areas of interest
> 3. Text easily without having to pre-define a bounding box for the ad-hoc
> text
>
> By far, the most powerful easy-to-use freeware screenshot editor is
> Paint.NET, which isn't on Linux.
>
> On Linux, a distant second place goes to Kolourpaint; and a far distant
> third place to The GIMP (based on ease of performing those three items
> above).
>
> I was told today that Pinta is a Linux replacement for Paint.NET features
> - so I am going to install it to test it out:
>   http://www.pinta-project.com
>
> Looking for an RPM ...
> $ uname -a
> ==> Linux snafu 2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 16 20:59:36 UTC
> 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> $ yum --noplugins --showduplicates --enablerepo \* --disablerepo c6-media,
> \*-source,\*debug\* provides "*/pinta"
> ==> nothing found
>
> http://pkgs.repoforge.org ==> pinta not found
> http://pkgs.org ==> finds pinta in Fedora packages 17, 18, 19, and
Rawhide
> http://pbone.net ==> finds pinta in Fedora packages 14,15,16,17,18, and
19
>
> Pinta source is also available here:
> http://pinta-project.com/pinta/download.ashx
>
> Given that information, what avenue would you pick to install Pinta on a
> 64-bit CentOS 6.4 laptop to test it out?
>
You can try installing package for Fedora 14 and see if there are 
solvable dependencies.

You can also take .src.rpm from Fedora 14 and try to recompile it for 
CentOS 6.x.


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On 20.06.2013 07:34, Rock wrote:
> A screenshot editor needs to do a few things - but it must do these 
> three
> things easily and well:
> 
> 1. Draw curved and straight arrows, dotted or solid line, with various
> end dots and points
> 2. Draw open circles of various shapes to highlight areas of interest
> 3. Text easily without having to pre-define a bounding box for the 
> ad-hoc
> text
Forget that mono %^&* and install Shutter; does what you said and more.
http://shutter-project.org/downloads/third-party-packages/

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On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:34:38 +0000, Rock wrote:
 
> Given that information, what avenue would you pick to install Pinta on a 
> 64-bit CentOS 6.4 laptop to test it out?
Now that I know the arrowing isn't implemented yet; and that it's 
problematic to install on CentOS, I'll give up.

I do appreciate the help, as I had stumbled against a wall in trying 
to install this. It's nice to know help exists. Thanks.