Shotwell on Wimpy's World

Shotwell 0.11 PPA available for Ubuntu Lucid and Maverick

martin@wimpress.com (Martin Wimpress) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:05:50 +0000

Like many others I wanted Shotwell 0.11 for Lucid and Maverick so I’ve created a PPA for it.

https://launchpad.net/~flexiondotorg/+archive/shotwell

My PPA contains Shotwell 0.11 built for Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu Maverick 10.10. I created this PPA because I run Lucid at home and wanted the new version of Shotwell. Sadly, Yorba aren’t going to provide new Shotwell packages for Lucid due to the reasons discussed in the following ticket: -

http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3015

As mentioned in the ticket above, there are newer versions of Shotwell available for Lucid in other PPAs. However, those PPAs contain hundreds of packages. If you’re not that brave, like me, then hopefully my PPA provides what you need. I have built Shotwell with minimal changes from the original Yorba source packages and not polluted my PPA with any unnecessary packages. Since Shotwell 0.11 you must enable the GStreamer PPA, see the ticket below for the reasons for this requirement:

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3716

To install Shotwell on Lucid and Maverick do the following:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:flexiondotorg/shotwell
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gstreamer-developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install shotwell

Enjoy!

Shotwell 0.8.1 PPA available for Ubuntu Lucid

martin@wimpress.com (Martin Wimpress) — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:04:42 +0000

Like many others I wanted Shotwell for Lucid so I’ve created a PPA for it.

<https://launchpad.net/~flexiondotorg/+archive/shotwell.

My PPA contains Shotwell 0.8.1 built for Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS. I created the PPA because I run Lucid at home and wanted the new version of Shotwell. Sadly, Yorba aren’t going to provide a Lucid build of Shotwell 0.8.1 due to the reasons discussed in the following ticket:

http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3015

As mentioned in the ticket above, there are versions of Shotwell 0.8.1 available for Lucid in other PPAs. However, those PPAs contain hundreds of packages. If you’re not that brave, like me, then hopefully my PPA provides what you need. I have built Shotwell 0.8.1 with minimal changes from the original Yorba source packages and not polluted my PPA with any unnecessary packages NOTE! My PPA has dependencies that are satisfied by the Yorba PPA, so you must also enable the Yorba PPA too.

https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa

To install Shotwell 0.8.1 on Lucid do the following:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:yorba/ppa
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:flexiondotorg/shotwell
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install shotwell

Goodbye F-Spot. Hello Shotwell

martin@wimpress.com (Martin Wimpress) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:39:17 +0000

I’ve finally found a photo organiser for Linux I can live with, Shotwell. Shotwell is a photo organiser for GNOME that I’ve been testing for a few months now but the recent 0.5 release which added tagging and printing, it means Shotwell is finally ready replace F-Spot on my workstation.

Shotwell is intuitive, well documented, extremely easy to use and reliable. It’s easy to dismiss Shotwell as an over simplified photo manager. But once you start using it, you’ll quickly appreciate its clean interface and easy-to-use tools. Don’t just take my word for it either, Shotwell is now the default photo manager in Fedora 13 alpha. Here is a quick run down of the features.

Import photos from folders or from any digital camera supported by gPhoto.
Shotwell automatically groups photos taken at the same time. You can also use tags to organize your photo collection.
You can rotate, crop, reduce red-eye, and adjust the exposure, saturation, tint, and temperature of each photo.
Publish photos to Facebook, Flickr and Picasa Web Albums.

Shotwell provides a non-destructive way to tweak your photos. Instead of modifying the original photos, Shotwell stores all edits in a database and applies them on-the-fly as necessary. This means that you can easily undo all edits. Shotwell comes equipped with all the usual photo enhancing tools and slideshow. You can download a source tarball from the Shotwell home page at http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/ or grab a binary for Ubuntu Karmic or Lucid via Yorba’s Launchpad PPA.

https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa