How to install Geeqie in Ubuntu 17.04

How to install Geeqie in Ubuntu 17.04

Geeqie is an open-source and lightweight image viewer that allows the user to view graphic files. It is desinged with several features like thumbnail view, filter and zoom options. It even supports external editor. This tutorial covers the installation process of Geeqie on Ubuntu 17.04.

Features

• EXIF, IPTC and XMP metadata browsing and editing
• Interoperability, easy integration with other software
• geeqie works on files and directories so there is no need to import images
• fast preview for many raw image formats
• tools for image comparison, sorting and managing photo collection

Installation procedure

To start with the installation procedure, add the repo by executing the following command in the target system.

root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:anton+/photo-video-apps
 Photo Video Applications build for the Standard (GTK) Ubuntu platforms
More info: https://launchpad.net/~anton+/+archive/ubuntu/photo-video-apps
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keybox ' /tmp/tmpo0ik5xoy/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: /tmp/tmpo0ik5xoy/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key E058073A72B61DBF: public key " Launchpad PPA for Pascal Mons"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
OK

The repositories are added successfully. Now update the repo by executing the apt-get update command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/anton+/photo-video-apps/ubuntu zesty InRelease [15.9 kB]
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease              
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/maarten-fonville/android-studio/ubuntu zesty InRelease
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/thomas-schiex/blender/ubuntu zesty InRelease   
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease                    
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/atom/ubuntu zesty InRelease 
Hit:7 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease       
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu zesty InRelease  
Hit:9 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports InRelease     
Get:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/anton+/photo-video-apps/ubuntu zesty/main amd64 Packages [14.1 kB]
Get:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/anton+/photo-video-apps/ubuntu zesty/main i386 Packages [14.1 kB]
Get:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/anton+/photo-video-apps/ubuntu zesty/main Translation-en [7,884 B]
Fetched 52.0 kB in 4s (11.8 kB/s)         
Reading package lists... Done

The target system is updated with the required repositories. Install the Geeqie package by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install geeqie
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  exiftran exiv2 geeqie-common liblensfun-data-v1 liblensfun1 liblua5.1-0
  ufraw-batch
Suggested packages:
  gimp xpaint geeqie-dbg libjpeg-progs ufraw
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  exiftran exiv2 geeqie geeqie-common liblensfun-data-v1 liblensfun1
  liblua5.1-0 ufraw-batch
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 73 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,575 kB of archives.
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Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Setting up liblua5.1-0:amd64 (5.1.5-8.1build1) ...
Setting up exiftran (2.10-1ubuntu3) ...
Setting up geeqie-common (1:1.3-1build1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu5) ...
Setting up exiv2 (0.25-3) ...
Setting up liblensfun1:amd64 (0.3.2-3) ...
Setting up geeqie (1:1.3-1build1) ...
Setting up ufraw-batch (0.22-1) ...

The application is installed successfully in the target system. To open the application, type the package name in the ubuntu dashboard and click on the icon to run the application.

Now Geeqie application is running. The user can now use this application to view any type of images.

Wasn' t that an easy installation? Geeqie can display images in normal, fullscreen mode, static or slideshow mode.