How to install Shotwell 0.28.2 on Ubuntu 18.04

To install Shotwell &ndash 0.28.2 on Ubuntu &ndash 18.04

Shotwell is the default digital photo manager on Ubuntu and Fedora. You can import all your photos directly from your disk or camera. You can organize your images through keywords and events, view them in full-screen mode, and also share them through social media. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of Shotwell on ubuntu 18.04.

Installation

First, we must add the repository that contains Shotwell application.

root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:yg-jensge/shotwell
 This PPA contains packages for the stable Shotwell releases.
You can file bugs against Shotwell from this PPA using the upstream GNOME bug tracker at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Shotwell
If you want to try the current development version of Shotwell, you can use the unstable PPA at https://launchpad.net/~yg-jensge/+archive/ubuntu/shotwell-unstable
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~yg-jensge/+archive/ubuntu/shotwell
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.
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Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/yg-jensge/shotwell/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages [1,100 B]
Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/yg-jensge/shotwell/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages [1,104 B]
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/yg-jensge/shotwell/ubuntu bionic/main Translation-en [440 B]
Hit:6 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease                                   
Hit:7 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease                           
Hit:8 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Fetched 23.4 kB in 15s (1,559 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done

After adding the repository update all the system packages.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/yg-jensge/shotwell/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease        
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease              
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

After updating proceed to install a Shotwell application.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install shotwell
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
  libaprutil1-ldap
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
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Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.56.0-4ubuntu1) ...
Setting up shotwell-common (0.28.2-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Setting up shotwell (0.28.2-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-0ubuntu2) ...

Shotwell has been installed now and you can access the application from the menu.

With this, the method to install Shotwell &ndash 0.28.2 on Ubuntu &ndash 18.04 comes to an end.