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 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




50 Comments

  1. Dare Ojo-Bello (Nigeria)
    December 31, 2012

    I am new to Ubuntu and as my work requires use of Snagit daily, I was desperate fora a similar application in linux. Shutter is great especially because I like to edit the captured images and add arrows, texts, annotations etc.

    Problem I have is I cannot copy the captured image to my documents eg copying to Libre Office gives the error “Requested clipboard format is not available”.

    Please can you help
    Dare

    reply
    • Romario
      January 1, 2013

      It works fine here, sorry. Are you pasting the image via Ctl+V? What version of Ubuntu/LibreOffice and Shutter are you using?

      reply
  2. Gaby
    June 11, 2012

    How to avoid that every time shutter starts be updated? It takes too much time!

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    • Romario
      June 13, 2012

      If this happens every time you start Shutter this is a bug. Are you using Ubuntu? Could you please verify that the package libnet-dropbox-api-perl is installed?

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      • Gaby
        June 14, 2012

        Thank you so much Romario! I didn’t have it! I installed libnet-dropbox-api-perl and now works fine.

        reply
  3. BIll-Vaughan
    May 10, 2012

    you can also use this keyboard shortcut … ALT+PrintScrn it works perfect… you can give it a try

    reply
  4. Frank
    March 2, 2012

    Can this PPA possibly be used with Debian Sid…or will it mess up something ???

    reply
    • Romario
      March 2, 2012

      To be honest, I don’t know. You could also use the .deb files if you don’t want to try it out.

      reply
  5. chessmaster
    August 13, 2011

    Thanks for providing this nice program

    reply
  6. Lynx Heureux
    March 19, 2011

    Not working with Ubuntu 08.04 Hardy Heron because libunique, a package Shutter depends indirectly is not available for that platform.

    Thus, Shutter is not available for this old LTS.

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    • Romario
      March 25, 2011

      Thanks for letting us know.
      I have uploaded the needed packages to our webserver and updated the download information. Additionally, I have pushed the package into our PPA.

      reply
      • Lynx Heureux
        March 26, 2011

        I confirm it works now with Ubuntu Hardy Heron 08.04 LTS. Thank you for the quick response and solution.

        reply
  7. scoutrider
    February 7, 2011

    …Nicest screen capture tool I’ve used.
    …and it looks like it does more?
    …Still have to see what this website part does.;-)
    …but while I’m here:
    …”Yay!”

    reply
  8. emaN
    October 12, 2010

    Nice application! Keep up the AWESOME work.

    reply
  9. Ppru
    September 22, 2010

    Thank you! App is good))

    reply
  10. monikgtr
    June 6, 2010

    Thanks for the guide! :D

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