Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Phototonic is an image viewer and organizer for Linux systems, created in Qt and C++. The latest version available is Phototonic 1.5.1, which has been recently released, coming with some changes and fixes. From the changelog:
- New toolbar in viewer mode for image manipulation actions
- Added Bookmarks feature
- Fixed sorting order when sorting by time and size
- Added Find Duplicate Images feature
- Added shortcuts for changing the focus to the Find and Path text areas
- Enhancements to Copy to and Move to dialogs
- Can now set thumbnails background image
- Enhancements to Colors dialog, added color balance feature
- Added Crop to Selection feature
- Added mouse shortcuts for Reset/Original Zoom
- Added feedback notification for transformation actions in viewer
- Changed Cropping dialog orientation to percentage cropping for continuous image cropping
- Image data now showed in sections
- Many other fixes
In this article I will show you how to install Phototonic 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS 14.04, LXLE 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Linux Lite 2.0, Peppermint Five and other Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10 derivative systems.
Because it is available via PPA, installing Phototonic 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the phototonic package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install phototonic
Optional, to remove phototonic, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove phototonic
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