Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Mirage is a lightweight, open-source photo viewer, having an intuitive graphical user interface that helps the users to easily view images. Among others, it has support for PGN, JPG, SVG, XPM, GIF, BMP and TIFF formats. Also, it has basic photo manipulation features, like zoom, rotate, crop, resize and has support for creating keyboard shortcuts.
The latest version available is Mirage 1.0, which has been released a month ago.
In this article I will show you how to install Mirage 1.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 16 Petra, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Isis, LXLE 14.04 and other Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 13.10 derivative systems.
Because it is available via PPA, installing Mirage 1.0 on the listed Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, LXLE systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the mirage package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vexo/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install mirage
Optional, to remove mirage, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove mirage
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