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PPA-Installation Guide

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.

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) and later

You can add a PPA to your system with a single line in your terminal. Open a terminal and enter:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shutter/ppa

Now, as a one-off, you should tell your system to pull down the latest list of software from each archive it knows about, including the PPA you just added:

sudo apt-get update

Install Shutter

sudo apt-get install shutter

On older (pre 9.10) Ubuntu systems

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 https://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.

36 Comments

Homitsu
7. June 2009

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.

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Romario
10. May 2009

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.

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Sebastian Ebert
10. May 2009

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?

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Ian Carter
3. May 2009

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

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Romario
29. April 2009

@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

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Nicholas Herriot
29. April 2009

Fantastic tool guys! Good job!

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

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Chris from Wynnum
19. April 2009

Step 8 didn’t work for me

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- Romario
  19. April 2009
  
  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
  
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Jorge
13. April 2009

Muchas gracias. Un programa genial.

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Kether
22. March 2009

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

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Ian Stewart
15. March 2009

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.

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- Vadim
  15. March 2009
  
  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.
  
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- Vadim
  18. March 2009
  
  Here they are: /faq-help/set-shutter-as-the-default-screenshot-tool/
  
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