How To Install Darktable on Debian 9.0

To install Darktable on Debian 9.0

Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW file processor a GTK+ front end. You can view all the negatives and photos in a zoomable light table. It supports non-destuctive editing and runs almost on all platforms which includes Windows, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux. Installing Darktable is so simple, and we have already covered the method to install Darktable on Ubuntu. In this article, you will learn the method to install Darktable on Debian.

Installing Darktable

Before installing Darktable, make sure you add the repo. Run the following command to open the sources.list file.

root@debian:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Once the file is open , add these lines at end of the file. Save and exit the file after adding.

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main

Once the repo added, update the apt sources.list file with the help of the following command.

root@debian:~# apt-get update
Ign:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable-updates InRelease
Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports InRelease [91.8 kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Sources [85.7 kB]
Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates InRelease [62.9 kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main amd64 Packages [137 kB]
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Translation-en [71.9 kB]
Hit:8 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable Release
Get:10 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main Sources [60.9 kB]
Get:11 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main amd64 Packages [155 kB]
Get:12 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main Translation-en [70.1 kB]
Fetched 735 kB in 5s (125 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

Now is the install the Darktable package. Run the following command as follows.

root@debian:~# apt-get install darktable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
javascript-common libflickcurl0 libgraphicsmagick-q16-3 libjs-prototype libjs-scriptaculous
liblensfun-data-v1 liblensfun1 libosmgpsmap-1.0-1 libpugixml1v5
Suggested packages:
apache2 | lighttpd | httpd graphicsmagick-dbg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
darktable javascript-common libflickcurl0 libgraphicsmagick-q16-3 libjs-prototype
libjs-scriptaculous liblensfun-data-v1 liblensfun1 libosmgpsmap-1.0-1 libpugixml1v5
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 79 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,847 kB of archives.
After this operation, 22.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
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Setting up darktable (2.2.1-3) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u1) ...

Once the package is installed, click activities and type the package name to find and launch it.

With this, the installation of Darktable is complete.