Hi, I’m not a fan of snaps, flatpaks, and other solutions like that. AppImage is the way to go with Krita. I’m on Ubuntu 24.04, but just in case it helps, here’s my setup for reference.
1. Fuse missing
It’s probably missing libfuse2. On 24.04 it’s installed with sudo apt install libfuse2t64. It may differ from version to version.
2. No launcher shortcut
Create a file .local/share/applications/krita.desktop with this content, but customize Exec, Path, Icon. Replace USER with your user name, and you can decide where to put the main krita executable and the app images.
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Krita
Comment=Krita
Exec=/home/USER/Apps/krita/krita
Path=/home/USER/Apps/krita
Icon=/home/USER/Apps/krita/krita.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Creative;
The way I do it, is to create a symbolic link krita to the latest AppImage I use. This way I don’t need to modify the desktop file if I upgrade. You create it like this (in the same directory as “Path” in the desktop file):
ln -s krita-5.2.14-x86_64.AppImage krita
And in my case I put my AppImages under $HOME/Apps/krita.
To get the icon, you can get an SVG file from Krita - Wikipedia. The desktop file should work with an SVG or you can download it as a PNG.
3. Getting thumbnails in the file browser
I described it here: Krita Thumbnails in Ubuntu 24.04 (how to).