PPA-Installation Guide
August 10th, 2009
This is a step-by-step procedure for installing Shutter on Ubuntu, aimed at beginners or users who rarely worked with PPAs (Personal Package Archives) before.
Please note: This guide applies only to Ubuntu.
- Add Shutter PPA to your ‘Software Sources’
Navigate to System ▸ Administration ▸ Software Sources
- Visit our PPA (hosted at Launchpad.net – https://launchpad.net/~shutter/+archive/ppa)
Select your Ubuntu release and copy the first line into your clipboard (Ctrl+C) as shown below.
- Each PPA has its own unique key that is used to sign the packages in that archive. To add the PPA’s key to your own system open a terminal and enter :
wget -q http://shutter-project.org/shutter-ppa.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Hint: Don’t forget the trailing dash. You’ll see a confirming ‘OK’ when the command was successfull.
(Until you add the PPA’s key to your own system, you’ll see warnings that you’re downloading from an untrusted source)
- Return to the ‘Software Sources’ window, navigate to the Third Party Software tab and hit the Add button.
- Paste your clipboard content into the entry box of the following popup to add our repository to the list of software sources. Then click on Add Source.
- If everything worked as expected our repository should be activated now. You can now close the window.
- When prompted to ‘Reload the information about available software’ press Reload and wait for the operation to complete.
- Now, just click here to install Shutter (using AptURL)
or open a terminal and enter:
sudo apt-get install shutter
- After the package manager has done its work you will be able to start Shutter for the first time using the menu entry.
It would be neat if someone could post here some instructions to substitute Shutter for the default Screenshot application, so it can be instantly available from the tray.
That’s a good suggestion. It’s rather easy to do (add to sessions + set Shutter to use PrtSc in shutter preferences), but I’ll setup a page for this tomorrow.
Here they are: http://shutter-project.org/faq-help/set-shutter-as-the-default-screenshot-tool/
Damn cool – the tool I’ve been waiting for since a long time. Installation process well described. Thanks guys (and girls).
Muchas gracias. Un programa genial.
Step 8 didn’t work for me
AptURL is not supported by all browsers, see:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptURL
You can use synaptic to install the shutter package and its dependencies or simply use the terminal and apt-get:
sudo apt-get install shutterFantastic tool guys! Good job!
Is ‘Shutter’ open source? How did you guys get funding?
@Nicholas Herriot
Thanks!
Shutter is open source (licensed under GPLv3). We live on donations. Open source is our hobby in general, so there is a very big fun part in doing this as well
Thanks for this. I’ve been using Snagit on Windows XP, and it’s nice to find a recommended alternative like Shutter.
After importing the key and when running apt-get install I get the message that the public key could not be found:
NO_PUBKEY A36F9D9FD1C0D905
What’s wrong?
A36F9D9FD1C0D905 looks not like Shutter’s key. After searching at google I’ve discovered the PPA for NSsbackup using this key:
https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team/+archive/ppa
Maybe you have their repo in your apt sources.list and not imported their key? Please let me know if that helps.
Same problem, like Sebastian.
I’ve got no NSsbackup.
Still able to force installation, so THANKS for this app, but there’s something not properly working in the key step.
@Homitsu
I’ve created a bug report for this at launchpad.net, thanks:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/shutter/+bug/384546
As I still can’t reproduce this error it would be nice if you could provide more information. Please comment on this bug and attach the content of your ‘/etc/apt/sources.list’ file and the output of the command ’sudo apt-key list’. Thanks for your help.
Huh… Sorry for this, but I hate Launchpad and its terrible interface; hope you don’t mind if I use comments…
>> content copied to #384546
I use Linux Mint, which does not have the “Software Sources” utility. But I did find a page where the instructions are strictly text commands…and it works fine. And much, much simpler than following the instructions on this page (sorry to say). Here’s that page:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/shutter-featureful-screenshot-tool.html
@Zeke Krahlin
The instructions are clearly labelled as for Ubuntu, so there is nothing wrong with them.
@Homitsu
Sorry for the delay, but your comment was detected as spam and I didn’t notice it. I hope you don’t mind that I’ve copied your content to the Launchpad bug.
I’ll check your files as soon as possible.
I followed the procedure :easy and well explained .
Shutter installed allright but there was a problem with
NO_PUBKEY FC6D7D9D009ED615 , I didnt understand . L.
@luccek
Please make sure that the unique key of Shutter’s PPA was added correctly to your system (Step 3).
You can check that via System ▸ Administration ▸ Software Sources
http://www.ubuntu-pics.de/bild/18729/bp_008_v8je42.png
Please keep in mind that the key’s description still contains ‘GScrot’ instead of ‘Shutter’.
There is something wrong with step three. I was getting errors.
I looked at the links and found a dash missing at the end. The line should look like this.
wget -q http://shutter-project.org/shutter-ppa.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
The dash was already there but it was not visible on some browser zoom levels. Maybe this was the reason.
I’ve selected a smaller font now, so the command fits in the column. Additionally I’ve added an extra hint.
Thanks SO MUCH!!!!!! This is great. I’ve been a skitch user on the Macs for awhile and now I can use this at home on Ubuntu!! Many thanks!
The assumption here seems to be that Shutter will only be installed on workstations with sudo permission. I want to install Shutter at work in my own home directory space such that it’ll work on any Redhat3/4/5 system. For that, I need pre-compiled gmone2.pm (i386 is fine). And I need to put it all in my own home space.
Is this possible?
Thanks,
–Myles
Nevermind, Redhat4 doesn’t even have the necessary Gnome2 libraries. God I hate Redhat, but my industry is stuck with it. I hate software dependencies. I wish everyone could build their software with an optional distribution that contains everything needed to run on a vanilla i386 linux kernel. Even if it’s a 40MB package file. Disk space is not a problem. My time and patience is the bottleneck. There’s no way I’m going to attempt to compile Gnome2 in my home dir space.
~/Gnome2-1.042 > perl Makefile.PL
…
Checking if your kit is complete…
Looks good
MakeMaker FATAL: prerequisites not found (Gnome2::Canvas not installed, Gnome2::VFS not installed, Glib not installed, ExtUtils::Depends not installed, Gtk2 not installed, ExtUtils::PkgConfig not installed)
Please install these modules first and rerun ‘perl Makefile.PL’.
@Myles
I understand your frustration. I’ll try to build a standalone binary during the next days. I am not very experienced here, so please don’t expect miracles
What architecture do you need? i386?
You can simply configure Shutter to open up on a specific key or key combination…
So if you configure it to open up on “Print”- Key, it is the default Screenshot tool… Where is the problem?
Have Fun…
How do we install in Suse linux 10.1 ??
How to install shutter in Suse linux 10.1( Sled 10.1)
More easy in Ubuntu Karmic
# Repos and key
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shutter/ppa
# Install
sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install shutter
Thanks for Shutter, great application.
@praveen
Unfortunately there are no openSUSE packages. The only source of help I can give you is this blog entry:
http://tuxrocket.com/archives/tinker/717
If you are interested in the latest bazaar snapshot or you want to use
the tar.gz archives to get Shutter running on your system, please make
sure you meet the dependencies (the name of the packages may differ),
see:
http://shutter-project.org/downloads/#dependencies
I know it can be a hazzle to install all those dependencies manually
Please let me know if you need any further assistance and attach the
horrible error messages from the terminal when Shutter does not want to
start…
Thank you! Easy to install (I just used the “sudo” command, and it did everything else for my Karmic. And very easy to use. This is one of my “must haves”.