How To Install entangle on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install entangle on Ubuntu.

What is `entangle`

entangle is:

Entangle provides a graphical interface for “tethered shooting”, aka taking photographs with a digital camera completely controlled from the computer.

Using Entangle is as easy as 1,2,3…

Connect camera
Launch Entangle
Shoot photos

With a sufficiently capable digital SLR camera Entangle allows:

Trigger the shutter from the computer
Live preview of scene before shooting
Automatic download and display of photos as they are shot
Control of all camera settings from computer

There are three methods to install entangle on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install entangle Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install entangle using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install entangle

Install entangle Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install entangle using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install entangle

Install entangle Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install entangle using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install entangle

How To Uninstall entangle on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the entangle package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove entangle

Uninstall entangle And Its Dependencies

To uninstall entangle and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove entangle

Remove entangle Configurations and Data

To remove entangle configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge entangle

Remove entangle configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove entangle configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge entangle

Dependencies

entangle have the following dependencies:

References

entangle website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install entangle package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.