How to install Shutter on Ubuntu 18.10 via repository

Shutter screenshot program

Shutter screenshot program

For a long time, to make some annotations on images I have used Shutter. The main function of this program has to do with screenshots, but Canonical removed it from its official repositories to add flameshot, a more interesting tool in terms of captures but without the editing options that it had Shutter. If, like me, you missed something of the tool that was offered to us until Ubuntu 18.10, keep reading and we will show you how to install it.

Like many other software, Shutter is now available in an unofficial repository. Its installation is very simple and the repository appears as safe, so we are not in any danger. In addition, having the repository installed, the program will automatically update like any other package that we have installed from Ubuntu Software. You have the necessary commands after the jump.

Shutter is now available from your repository

To install this screenshot and image editing program in Ubuntu 18.10 we will do the following:

  1. We open a terminal.
  2. We write the following command to add the repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/shutter
  1. We update the repositories and install the software with the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install shutter
Shuter Editor

Shuter Editor

Why do I install Shutter? As I have already commented, mainly by your editor. It is very easy and fast for me to perform "markup" tasks with this editor in a similar way to the video editor that comes with the macOS ScreenFlow program. For example, put the arrows of the thickness that I want, text or pixelate a piece of the image, something that you can see in the screenshot above this paragraph. On the one hand, I understand that Canonical wants to offer us the best software options, but I don't quite like that options like this are eliminated, and even more so if we take into account that it offers functions that Flameshot does not offer.

And you? Do you prefer Shutter, Flameshot or another option?


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  1.   MrChildren said

    Thank you very much for the article. I also use Shutter for the editor, in Ubuntu 18.04 I have it thanks to some instructions that I found out there installing loose things. I have tried the alternatives and for some of the tasks of my work it is the most comfortable by far despite how simple it is, or perhaps because of that.

  2.   Lolito said

    I DON'T KNOW HOW TO MAKE IT EASIER