How To Install Darktable 2.4.0 In Ubuntu

To Install Darktable 2.4.0 In Ubuntu

Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them. This new version of Darktable comprise of many powerful changes and some of them are listed below.

Darktable 2.4.0 New Features And Changes

• Some more small improvements were made
• Add an option to omit the intermediate tag hierarchy in exported files and only add the last level
• Show a dialog window that tells when locking the database/library failed
• Make gradient sliders a little more colorful
• Add bash like string replacement for variables (export, watermark, session settings)

It is really so simple to install Darktable 2.4.0 In Ubuntu and this tutorial covers the ground on the same process.

Installing Darktable 2.4.0

Before you start the installation procedure, you need to update the repository by executing the following command.

user@linuxhelp:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for user:
Ign:1 cdrom://Ubuntu 17.04 _Zesty Zapus_ - Release amd64 (20170412) zesty InRelease
Hit:2 cdrom://Ubuntu 17.04 _Zesty Zapus_ - Release amd64 (20170412) zesty Release
Hit:4 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease        
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pmjdebruijn/darktable-release/ubuntu zesty InRelease          
Hit:6 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease                          
Hit:7 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease               
Hit:8 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease    
Reading package lists... Done

And then, make sure you add the required repositories by making use of the following command.

user@linuxhelp:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmjdebruijn/darktable-release
 " Fairly Stable"  releases for Darktable
Do not install a more recent version of Lensfun using another PPA as it will likely cause issues due the API changes. The lensfun package for Xenial on this PPA already has new lenses patched in.

Xenial (16.04 LTS) has some extra library updates available, as some relevant libraries shipped by Canonical for Xenial are fairly dated.
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gpg: key 40C18E9EC07EE05F: public key " Launchpad PPA for Pascal de Bruijn"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
OK

Once the repositories are added, make sure you update your repository again.

user@linuxhelp:~$ sudo apt-get update
Ign:1 cdrom://Ubuntu 17.04 _Zesty Zapus_ - Release amd64 (20170412) zesty InRelease
Hit:2 cdrom://Ubuntu 17.04 _Zesty Zapus_ - Release amd64 (20170412) zesty Release
Hit:4 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease
Hit:5 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease              
Hit:6 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease    
Hit:7 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pmjdebruijn/darktable-release/ubuntu zesty InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Now you shall proceed with the installation of Darktable by making use of the following command.

user@linuxhelp:~$ sudo apt install darktable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  darktable
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 311 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,988 kB of archives.
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Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-1) ...

After the installation, you shall open your application via your Ubuntu dashboard search field.

Now you can be able to see the application

With this, the installation of Darktable 2.4.0 In Ubuntu comes to an end