I want to install Paint(Microsoft) equivalent image viewing or editing software in Ubuntu 24.10.
I got the command sudo apt install gpaint but getting the following error
Package 'gpaint' has no installation candidate.
How to resolve it? Is there other better software than GNU?
gpaint has not been in Ubuntu since 2023, and is dead upstream at its project pages (which seem to still exist but are not updated and haven't been for years). It was removed in Debian, and that removal trickled down to Ubuntu as seen in the package's publishing logs in the below screenshot:
The Debian removal bug #1035797 indicates the following reason for removal in Debian:
The package is orphaned and its upstream is no longer developed. It depends on gtk2, has a low popcon and no reverse dependencies.
-- Bastian Germann
As of 2023, gpaint was no longer maintained, no longer developed, depended on GTK2 (which was removed from Debian and other releases of Ubuntu and other distros), was NOT a popular package.
Because of this, it was removed from Debian on May 9th, 2023. That deletion was done by Steve Langasek on May 11th, 2023.
I would look for an alternative tool other than gpaint.
