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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.

54 Comments

kensol
March 10, 2010

Thank you!! I’ve been searching for a tool like this and I didn’t find anything really useful until now.

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tommark
January 16, 2010

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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Romario
November 7, 2009

@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:
/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…

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Lertzo
November 7, 2009

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.

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praveen
November 6, 2009

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

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praveen
November 6, 2009

How do we install in Suse linux 10.1 ??

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rakete
September 30, 2009

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…

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Romario
September 26, 2009

@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?

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Myles
September 25, 2009

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’.

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Myles
September 25, 2009

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

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