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.

  1. Add Shutter PPA to your ‘Software Sources’
    Navigate to SystemAdministrationSoftware Sources

  2. 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.
    step2_new2
  3. 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 -

    step2_1_new

    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)

  4. Return to the ‘Software Sources’ window, navigate to the Third Party Software tab and hit the Add button.

  5. 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.
    step4_new
  6. If everything worked as expected our repository should be activated now. You can now close the window.
    step5_new
  7. When prompted to ‘Reload the information about available software’ press Reload and wait for the operation to complete.

  8. Now, just click here to install Shutter (using AptURL)
    step9_new


    or open a terminal and enter:

    sudo apt-get install shutter
  9. After the package manager has done its work you will be able to start Shutter for the first time using the menu entry.
    step10_new

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  1. Ian Stewart
    March 15th, 2009 at 00:45 | #1

    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.

  2. Kether
    March 22nd, 2009 at 01:27 | #4

    Damn cool – the tool I’ve been waiting for since a long time. Installation process well described. Thanks guys (and girls).

  3. April 13th, 2009 at 21:53 | #5

    Muchas gracias. Un programa genial.

  4. Chris from Wynnum
    April 19th, 2009 at 13:45 | #6

    Step 8 didn’t work for me :(

    • Romario
      April 19th, 2009 at 14:33 | #7

      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 shutter

  5. April 29th, 2009 at 14:20 | #8

    Fantastic tool guys! Good job! :-)

    Is ‘Shutter’ open source? How did you guys get funding?

  6. Romario
    April 29th, 2009 at 14:46 | #9

    @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 ;-)

  7. May 3rd, 2009 at 02:02 | #10

    Thanks for this. I’ve been using Snagit on Windows XP, and it’s nice to find a recommended alternative like Shutter.

  8. Sebastian Ebert
    May 10th, 2009 at 13:52 | #11

    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?

  9. Romario
    May 10th, 2009 at 22:10 | #12

    Sebastian Ebert :

    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.

  10. Homitsu
    June 7th, 2009 at 12:16 | #13

    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.

  11. Romario
    June 7th, 2009 at 18:26 | #14

    @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.

  12. Homitsu
    June 7th, 2009 at 21:05 | #15

    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

  13. June 11th, 2009 at 08:15 | #16

    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

  14. June 11th, 2009 at 13:46 | #17

    @Zeke Krahlin

    The instructions are clearly labelled as for Ubuntu, so there is nothing wrong with them.

  15. Romario
    June 16th, 2009 at 13:03 | #18

    @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.

  16. luccek
    July 15th, 2009 at 12:42 | #19

    I followed the procedure :easy and well explained .
    Shutter installed allright but there was a problem with

    NO_PUBKEY FC6D7D9D009ED615 , I didnt understand . L.

  17. Romario
    July 15th, 2009 at 13:02 | #20

    @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’.

  18. July 16th, 2009 at 03:25 | #21

    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 -

  19. Romario
    July 16th, 2009 at 11:38 | #22

    Joewski :

    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.

  20. August 1st, 2009 at 16:33 | #23

    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!

  21. Myles
    September 25th, 2009 at 20:16 | #24

    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

  22. Myles
    September 25th, 2009 at 20:40 | #25

    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’.

  23. Romario
    September 26th, 2009 at 13:14 | #26

    @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?

  24. rakete
    September 30th, 2009 at 10:21 | #27

    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…

  25. praveen
    November 6th, 2009 at 22:48 | #28

    How do we install in Suse linux 10.1 ??

  26. praveen
    November 6th, 2009 at 22:59 | #29

    How to install shutter in Suse linux 10.1( Sled 10.1)

  27. November 7th, 2009 at 03:10 | #30

    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.

  28. Romario
    November 7th, 2009 at 13:56 | #31

    @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…

  29. tommark
    January 16th, 2010 at 23:45 | #32

    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”.

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