How To Install shutter on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install shutter on Debian 12.
What is shutter
shutter is:
Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website - apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.
Features: * take a screenshot of your complete desktop, a rectangular area * take screenshot directly or with a specified delay time * save the screenshots to a specified directory and name them in a convenient way (using special wild-cards) * Shutter is fully integrated into the GNOME Desktop (TrayIcon etc.) * generate thumbnails directly when you are taking a screenshot and set a size level in % * Shutter session collection o keep track of all screenshots during session o copy screeners to clipboard o print screenshots o delete screenshots o rename your file * upload your files directly to Image-Hosters (e.g. imgur.com), retrieve all the needed links and share them with others * edit your screenshots directly using the embedded drawing tool
There are three methods to install shutter on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install shutter Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install shutter using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install shutter
Install shutter Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install shutter using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install shutter
Install shutter 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install shutter using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install shutter
How To Uninstall shutter on Debian 12
To uninstall only the shutter package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove shutter
Uninstall shutter And Its Dependencies
To uninstall shutter and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove shutter
Remove shutter Configurations and Data
To remove shutter configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge shutter
Remove shutter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove shutter configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge shutter
Dependencies
shutter have the following dependencies:
- gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1
- gir1.2-wnck-3.0
- imagemagick
- libcarp-always-perl
- libfile-basedir-perl
- libfile-copy-recursive-perl
- libfile-which-perl
- libglib-object-introspection-perl
- libglib-perl
- libgoocanvas2-cairotypes-perl
- libgoocanvas2-perl
- libgtk3-imageview-perl
- libgtk3-perl
- libimage-exiftool-perl
- libimage-magick-perl
- libjson-maybexs-perl
- libjson-perl
- liblocale-gettext-perl
- liblwp-protocol-https-perl
- libnet-dbus-perl
- libnet-dbus-glib-perl
- libnet-oauth-perl
- libnumber-bytes-human-perl
- libpango-perl
- libpath-class-perl
- libproc-processtable-perl
- libproc-simple-perl
- libreadonly-perl
- librsvg2-common
- libsort-naturally-perl
- libwww-mechanize-perl
- libwww-perl
- libx11-protocol-other-perl
- libx11-protocol-perl
- libxml-simple-perl
- procps
- xdg-utils
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install shutter package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
