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On this page you can find the list of problems that you may encounter with Krita and your distribution.

== General issues ==

* when I launch krita, it complains that "no colorspaces are installed". Please exit Krita, press alt+f2 then run "kbuildsycoca". If you are running Krita2 from trunk, please run kbuildsycoca4.

== Fedora Core ==

* Cannot open png/jpeg/tiff files? You need to install the package koffice-filters, note that krita supports more file formats, like xcf, but the filter which handles these formats is based on GraphicsMagick and isn't packaged in Fedora.

== Mandriva ==

* The 2007 version of Mandriva includes a beta version of krita! This is a development version and has a lot of bugs and crashes that we fixed in final release. The problem is solved in the 2007 Spring version.

== SuSE ==

* SuSE configures the tablet pointing devices with the names mouse[X] to mouse[X + 3], which confuses Krita. Rename the devices to cursor, stylus and eraser in the xorg.conf file and disable the cursor device in Krita; enable the rest. Note that the last point only works with a 1.6 branch version of Krita you compiled yourself: the version SuSE packages is way too old, even in openSUSE 10.3.

Also note that for any Qt4 tablet-enabled application you need to do the same: Qt4.5 and earlier want "eraser" and "stylus": other names do not work. (fixed in [http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/5306337bf3ba9b770824ae889e31e991a4e03ade] and [http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/e238e7b06f4c90c4b36621ade07329264fa7bed3])

Also note that for OpenSUSE 10.3, it may be necessary to run
 setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x0200 irq 5 autoconfig
before starting X11, for instance by adding it to /etc/init.d/boot.local if you use a tablet pc like the Lenovo Thinkpad X61t instead of an usb graphire, bamboo or intuos tablet.

== Ubuntu/Kubuntu ==
* 9.04 configures the tablet pointing devices with non-standard naming, this makes it impossible to use it in Krita, you can see more information in [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom] and [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom.fdi] to be recognized by Qt4.5 and earlier, the name needs to be "stylus", "eraser" and "pointer" (Reported as [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/365420], more information in [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wacom-tools/+bug/355340] and a solution in [http://nowardev.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/wacom-graphire-4-usb-kubuntu-904/]).

== General Tablet Woes ==

In Krita 1.x, the tablet system can get confused sometimes. We have fixed that for Krita 2.0x

We only have tested with Wacom tablets -- we don't have other brands around. Generally speaking, if Qt4 supports your tablet, Krita will support it, if not, not.

You will find more information about tablet support in the [[Krita/Hardware_support|harware support section]].