How To Install shotwell 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 shotwell on Ubuntu.

What is `shotwell`

shotwell is:

Shotwell is a digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos, pictures, images and videos from disk or camera. Shotwell can organize them in collections and in other various ways. The viewer shows them in full-window or fullscreen mode and presents them as galleries or slideshows. The integrated editor can rotate, flip, crop and tag the photos, adjust the colors und remove red eyes. Export is possible to facebook, Flickr or Youtube to share with others. It is able to manage a lot of image formats such as JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF and Raw CR2.

There are three methods to install shotwell 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 shotwell Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install shotwell

Install shotwell Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install shotwell

Install shotwell 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 shotwell using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install shotwell

How To Uninstall shotwell on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove shotwell

Uninstall shotwell And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove shotwell

Remove shotwell Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge shotwell

Remove shotwell configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge shotwell

Dependencies

shotwell have the following dependencies:

References

shotwell website

Summary

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