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paraclete

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Registered: 2026-03-28

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[SOLVED] Krita 5.3 not available in official repositories

As the 6.0 update got released, the 5.3 version was released along for a stable user experience, as it was mentioned by the developers.

Since I can't find it in repositories, I would use the official AppImage instead, but I wonder if the 5.3 package will be available here just like 6.0.

Last edited by paraclete (2026-03-28 09:06:51)

frostschutz

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Registered: 2013-11-15

Posts: 1,639

Re: [SOLVED] Krita 5.3 not available in official repositories

You could just reinstall 5.x from the package archive for now and then put it on ignore so it won't auto-update, and maybe wait a bit and see if the situation is resolved. ( If Arch sticks to 6.x, I guess someone would put it in the AUR regardless, or maybe you could do that ).

Last edited by frostschutz (2026-03-28 08:40:10)

arojas

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From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,287

Re: [SOLVED] Krita 5.3 not available in official repositories

There are no plans to provide 5.3 in the official repos. If you have issues with 6.0, please report them.

ararvyne

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Registered: 2026-03-29

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Re: [SOLVED] Krita 5.3 not available in official repositories

All Krita plugins made for 5.3 use PyQt5 which fails to import in Krita 6. So the older version should be available for plugin support.

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 579

Re: [SOLVED] Krita 5.3 not available in official repositories

All Krita plugins made for 5.3 use PyQt5 which fails to import in Krita 6

Of course, because Krita is now using Qt6.
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/krita/
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … ugin-gmic/

Qt6 has different calls than Qt5. Sometimes the includes in C++, or imports in PyQt6 are different.
https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/portingguide.html
https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt6/

Everything is/has been moving to Qt6. Arch is a rolling release.
https://krita-artists.org/c/resources/p … scripts/33

I never use it. You'll need to move over to Qt6.