How To Install shotwell on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install shotwell
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is shotwell
shotwell is:
Shotwell is a digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos, pictures, images and videos from disk or camera. Shotwell can organize them in collections and in other various ways. The viewer shows them in full-window or fullscreen mode and presents them as galleries or slideshows. The integrated editor can rotate, flip, crop and tag the photos, adjust the colors und remove red eyes. Export is possible to facebook, Flickr or Youtube to share with others. It is able to manage a lot of image formats such as JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF and Raw CR2. Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop
Package: shotwell Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.30.8-0ubuntu2 Priority: extra Section: gnome Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Jörg Frings-Fürst [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 6427 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libexif12 (>= 0.6.21-1~), libgcr-base-3-1 (>= 3.8.0), libgcr-ui-3-1 (>= 3.8.0), libgdata22 (>= 0.15.0), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.25.2), libgee-0.8-2 (>= 0.10.1), libgexiv2-2 (>= 0.10.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.43.92), libgphoto2-6 (>= 2.5.10), libgphoto2-port12 (>= 2.5.10), libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0), libgstreamer1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.22), libgudev-1.0-0 (>= 146), libjson-glib-1.0-0 (>= 1.2.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libraw19 (>= 0.16.0), libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.41.90), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (>= 2.15.1), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), shotwell-common (= 0.30.8-0ubuntu2), dconf-cli, default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus, librsvg2-common Replaces: shotwell-common (« 0.26.2-1) Filename: pool/main/s/shotwell/shotwell_0.30.8-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 1796684 MD5sum: 25dc5802519c4ca959d522d13ad62da2 SHA1: b249875752a43dddad3905b7e1a8b0d89df79dd0 SHA256: 4b6a5dfb5f9c0b651317cf23ae86b6054056c757fc2e75ab5d4b1b9d47429ea0 Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell Description-en: digital photo organizer Shotwell is a digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos, pictures, images and videos from disk or camera. Shotwell can organize them in collections and in other various ways. The viewer shows them in full-window or fullscreen mode and presents them as galleries or slideshows. The integrated editor can rotate, flip, crop and tag the photos, adjust the colors und remove red eyes. Export is possible to facebook, Flickr or Youtube to share with others. It is able to manage a lot of image formats such as JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF and Raw CR2. Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop
There are three methods to install shotwell
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install shotwell Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install shotwell
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install shotwell
Install shotwell Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install shotwell
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install shotwell
Install shotwell Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install shotwell
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install shotwell
How To Uninstall shotwell on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the shotwell
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove shotwell
Uninstall shotwell And Its Dependencies
To uninstall shotwell
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove shotwell
Remove shotwell Configurations and Data
To remove shotwell
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge shotwell
Remove shotwell configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove shotwell
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge shotwell
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install shotwell
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.