How to install PhotoFiltre LX in Ubuntu

To install photoFiltre LX in Ubuntu

PhotoFiltre LX 0.9 is a free-ware, cross platform image editing software. It is known for its features like preference Dialog, image manipulation, Window modes, Tool palette. Installation of PhotoFiltre is explained in this manual.

To install PhotoFiltre LX

Navigate to download directory by using the below command.

root@linuxhelp:~# cd /home/user1/Downloads/  

Run the following command to download the PhotoFiltre tool.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Downloads# wget https://launchpad.net/photofiltre-lx/trunk/studio-1.0/+download/PhotoFiltreLX-STU_1.0_Beta.deb  
--2016-08-19 17:28:00--  https://launchpad.net/photofiltre-lx/trunk/studio-1.0/+download/PhotoFiltreLX-STU_1.0_Beta.deb
Resolving launchpad.net (launchpad.net)... 91.189.89.223, 91.189.89.222
Connecting to launchpad.net (launchpad.net)|91.189.89.223|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/273529519/PhotoFiltreLX-STU_1.0_Beta.deb [following]
--2016-08-19 17:28:01--  https://launchpadlibrarian.net/273529519/PhotoFiltreLX-STU_1.0_Beta.deb
Resolving launchpadlibrarian.net (launchpadlibrarian.net)... 91.189.89.229, 91.189.89.228
Connecting to launchpadlibrarian.net (launchpadlibrarian.net)|91.189.89.229|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 625768 (611K) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: ‘ PhotoFiltreLX-STU_1.0_Beta.deb’ 

PhotoFiltreLX-STU_1 100%[===================> ] 611.10K   198KB/s    in 3.1s    

2016-08-19 17:28:07 (198 KB/s) - ‘ PhotoFiltreLX-STU_1.0_Beta.deb’  saved [625768/625768]

Next set execute permission for that deb file as shown below.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Downloads#  chmod +x PhotoFiltreLX-STU_1.0_Beta.deb  

Utilize the ' dpkg' command to install PhotoFiltreLX.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Downloads# dpkg -i --force-depends PhotoFiltreLX-STU_1.0_Beta.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package photofiltre-lx-studio.
(Reading database ... 213509 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack PhotoFiltreLX-STU_1.0_Beta.deb ...
Unpacking photofiltre-lx-studio (1.0~xenial2) ...
dpkg: photofiltre-lx-studio: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested:
 photofiltre-lx-studio depends on libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12  however:
  Package libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12 is not installed.

Setting up photofiltre-lx-studio (1.0~xenial2) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...

Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...

Next run the following command for installing the dependency files required for the Photofiltre.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Downloads# apt-get -f install 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libwxbase3.0-0v5 libwxgtk3.0-0v5
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12 libgraphicsmagick-q16-3
Suggested packages:
  graphicsmagick-dbg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12 libgraphicsmagick-q16-3
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 55 not upgraded.
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.
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Setting up libgraphicsmagick-q16-3 (1.3.23-1build1) ...
Setting up libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12 (1.3.23-1build1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Downloads#

Search and open the photofiltre application from the Ubuntu dashboard.

The application opens as follows.

Click “ new” icon to add a new file.

Now the setting window appears, set the new window pixels and click “ ok”

Next add the image to be edited by hitting “ open”

Choose the image and click “ open”

And start editing your image.