Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, PhotoQt is an open-source image viewer with basic image manipulation functions, like rotate, flip, or zoom. Because it uses the GraphicsMagick Image processing system, it has support for more than 80 file formats.
The latest version available is PhotoQt 1.1.0.1, which has been recently released, coming with the below changes and fixes:
- Critical Fix: PhotoQt crashed on 32 Bit systems
- PhotoQt now based on Qt5
- Phonon replaced by QMultimedia
- Rotations/Flipping stored per session (nothing is saved permanently in any files)
- Filter images in current directory by filename/extension
- Scaling images (permanent change)
- Faded in widgets code moved to own class (massive code simplification)
- Fade-in now starts at the top of the screen
- Quick Settings (fade-in widget on the right)
- Fake Transparency (background) now supported for any number of screens
- CMake updates translation files on the fly (handy for translators)
- fix: restore from system tray preserves fullscreen
- fix: context menu converted to ‘normal’ shortcut
- fix: possible to select background image
- fix: saving settings no longer corrupts session wide list of known file formats
- many improvements to custom widget classes (added methods for better styling, etc.)
- several visual mock-ups (see yourself)
In this article I will show you how to install PhotoQt 1.1.0.1 on Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Fedora 20 and Fedora 19 systems.
Because PhotoQt 1.1.0.1 is available via repository, installing it on Ubuntu, Fedora and derivative systems is easy. Follow the instructions for your system exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install PhotoQt 1.1.0.1 on Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and derivative systems:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install photoqt
Optional, to remove photoqt, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove photoqt
How to install PhotoQt 1.1.0.1 on Fedora 20 systems:
$ sudo wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:zhonghuaren/Fedora_20/home:zhonghuaren.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/home:zhonghuaren.repo
$ sudo yum install photoqt
Optional, to remove photoqt, do:
$ sudo yum remove photoqt
How to install PhotoQt 1.1.0.1 on Fedora 19 systems:
$ sudo wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:zhonghuaren/Fedora_19/home:zhonghuaren.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/home:zhonghuaren.repo
$ sudo yum install photoqt
Optional, to remove photoqt, do:
$ sudo yum remove photoqt
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