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How to install LightZone 4.1.8 on Ubuntu 18.04

To install LightZone 4.1.8 on Ubuntu 18.04
LightZone is a free, open-source, and professional-level digital darkroom and photo editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Its main purpose is to handle the workflow when handling images in various RAW formats and it is comparable to Adobe Systems’ s Photoshop Lightroom. In this tutorial explains the installation procedure of LightZone on Ubuntu 18.04.

Prerequisites

Add the repository of LightZone using PPA

root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:lightzone-team/lightzone
 Official PPA for LightZone digital darkroom software.
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~lightzone-team/+archive/ubuntu/lightzone
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.

Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease   
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease               
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease       
Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/lightzone-team/lightzone/ubuntu bionic InRelease [15.9 kB]
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease     
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/lightzone-team/lightzone/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages [588 B]
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/lightzone-team/lightzone/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages [588 B]
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/lightzone-team/lightzone/ubuntu bionic/main Translation-en [516 B]
Fetched 17.6 kB in 4s (4,542 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done

Installation

Install the package using the following command

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install lightzone -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
  libaprutil1-ldap
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
.
.
Setting up javahelp2 (2.0.05.ds1-9) ...
Setting up lightzone (4.1.8-0ppa1bionic1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for ca-certificates (20180409) ...
Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs...
0 added, 0 removed  done.
Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d...

done.
done.

Once Installation is done you can access the LightZone from the Menu as shown here

LightZone application

The version of LightZone can be found in Help-> About

With this, the method to install LightZone 4.1.8 on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.

Tag : Photo editor tools Ubuntu
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