Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Shotwell is the default photo manager/organizer on Ubuntu and Fedora. The latest version available is Shotwell 0.18.0, which comes with the below new features/fixes:
- Tumblr publishing fixed
- Fixed resource leak when importing videos
- Improved searching for event comments and diacritics
- Various bug fixes
- Compile and install translated help files
- Updated translations
In this article I will show you how to install Shotwell 0.18 on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander and Linux Mint 16 Petra.
Because it is available via PPA, installing Shotwell 0.18 on Ubuntu 13.10 and Linux Mint 16 is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the shotwell package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install shotwell