How to install Shutter – 0.94 on Ubuntu – 18.04

To install Shutter 0.94 on Ubuntu 18.04

Shutter a feature-rich screenshot taking tool available for Linux. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website and apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window. Some of the other features of Shutter on Linux Mint are listed below.

Installing Shutter 0.94

Let' s first start with updating the system repository.

linuxhelp user # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                        
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease                                
Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease                             
Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease                             
Ign:6 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease
Hit:7 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release
Reading package lists... Done

After updating the system repository you can install shutter using the following command.

linuxhelp user # apt-get install shutter
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libclass-data-inheritable-perl libcommon-sense-perl libcrypt-openssl-bignum-perl libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libdata-random-perl libfile-which-perl
  libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-gconf-perl libgnome2-perl libgnome2-vfs-perl libgnome2-wnck-perl libgtk2-imageview-perl libgtk2-unique-perl
  libgtkimageview0 libhttp-server-simple-perl libimage-magick-perl libimage-magick-q16-perl libjson-perl libjson-xs-perl libmouse-perl
  libnet-dropbox-api-perl libnet-oauth-perl libpath-class-perl libperl5.22 libproc-processtable-perl libproc-simple-perl libsort-naturally-perl
.
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Creating config file /etc/perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini with new version
Setting up libxml-libxml-perl (2.0123+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1) ...
update-perl-sax-parsers: Registering Perl SAX parser XML::LibXML::SAX::Parser with priority 50...
update-perl-sax-parsers: Registering Perl SAX parser XML::LibXML::SAX with priority 50...
update-perl-sax-parsers: Updating overall Perl SAX parser modules info file...
Replacing config file /etc/perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini with new version
Setting up libxml-simple-perl (2.22-1) ...
Setting up perlmagick (8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.9) ...
Setting up shutter (0.93.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9)&hellip 

Shutter is installed now and you can access it by launchig it from your search field.

The application is now launched and you can use shutter now.

To verify the version of Shutter, navigate to the help menu from menu bar and click on about option.

With this, the method to install Shutter 0.94 on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.