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.

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.
   
   
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 -

   

   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.
   
   
6. If everything worked as expected our repository should be activated now. You can now close the window.
   
   
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)
   

   
   

   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.