SUGGESTION TO GET OUT OF RABBIT HOLE OF CONSTANT PINTA CRASHES

Anyone to get into this crashing problems I strongly suggest to do the 
following:
1. Check Pinta version. Open Terminal and type in:
pinta --version

2. If version 1.6 is displayed, you are using 6 years old Pinta version. Pinta 
1.7 was released more then a year ago, but sadly 6 years old Pinta version is 
still packaged in all of the recent Ubuntu releases (20.10, 21.04 and 21.10). I 
suggest to remove Pinta deb package completely:
sudo apt purge pinta
If using some other Linux distribution, check Linux distribution command to 
remove installed package.

3. Install Pinta 1.7 from snap package:
sudo snap install pinta

Why I suggest to install Pinta 1.7 from snap?
a) Snap packages bound Pinta program all of the dependencies into single 
package completely independent from Ubuntu version and completely independent 
from any software installed on Ubuntu distribution like Mono versions etc that 
is the most likely candidate for crashes. If you are using some other Linux 
distribution, then you need to install snapd package before step 3 above is 
possible. See details (there is one single command): 
https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd
b) I am using Pinta 1.7 snap package for more then a year and very little to 
none serious problems.
c) Pinta 1.7 snap package is regularly updated by snap maintainer, so any new 
fixes in stable branch get released you get updates and so massively reducing 
potential problems.

If you prefer Flatpack instead of Snap, there is also flatpack version
of Pinta. See instruction how to install flatpack:
https://flatpak.org/setup/ and instructions at the bottom of
https://www.flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.PintaProject.Pinta how
to install Pinta.

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  Pinta constantly crashes in Ubuntu fresh install [double free or
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