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

  1. You can add a PPA to your system with a single line in your terminal. Open a terminal and enter:
    2. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shutter/ppa
  2. 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:
    3. sudo apt-get update
  3. Install Shutter
    4. sudo apt-get install shutter

On older (pre 9.10) Ubuntu systems

  1. Add Shutter PPA to your ‘Software Sources’
    Navigate to System ▸ Administration ▸ Software 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 https://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




50 Comments

  1. Dan
    August 1, 2009

    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!

    reply
  2. Romario
    July 16, 2009

    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 /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.

    reply
  3. Joewski
    July 16, 2009

    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 /shutter-ppa.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -

    reply
  4. Romario
    July 15, 2009

    @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’.

    reply
  5. luccek
    July 15, 2009

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

    NO_PUBKEY FC6D7D9D009ED615 , I didnt understand . L.

    reply
  6. Romario
    June 16, 2009

    @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.

    reply
  7. Vadi
    June 11, 2009

    @Zeke Krahlin

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

    reply
  8. Zeke Krahlin
    June 11, 2009

    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

    reply
  9. Homitsu
    June 7, 2009

    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

    reply
  10. Romario
    June 7, 2009

    @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.

    reply
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