How to install Nomacs on Ubuntu 17.04

How to install Nomacs on Ubuntu 17.04

Nomacs is a free, open source and cross-platform image viewer that is mostly used for viewing all the common image formats including RAW and psd images. Nomacs also includes image manipulation methods for adjusting brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, gamma and exposure. Activating the cacher allows to instantly switch between images. This tutorial explains the installation procedure of Nomacs on Ubuntu 17.04.

Installation procedure

To start the installation procedure, add the repo by executing the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:nomacs/stable
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~nomacs/+archive/ubuntu/stable
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keybox ' /tmp/tmpzagc0w5d/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: /tmp/tmpzagc0w5d/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key D99B1D2629935E8D: public key " Launchpad PPA for nomacs developers"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
OK

The repositories are added to the target system. Update the repo by executing the apt-get update command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease                                   
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nomacs/stable/ubuntu zesty InRelease                                     
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease                                               
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

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

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install nomacs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libopencv-core2.4v5 libopencv-imgproc2.4v5 libtbb2 libwebpdemux2 qt5-image-formats-plugins
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libopencv-core2.4v5 libopencv-imgproc2.4v5 libtbb2 libwebpdemux2 nomacs qt5-image-formats-plugins
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 98 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,924 kB of archives.
After this operation, 11.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Setting up nomacs (3.6.0-1~96~ubuntu17.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-9ubuntu2) ...

Once the package is installed, open the Ubuntu dashboard and type the Nomacs package name in the search bar. Click on the icon to run the application.

Wasn' t that an easy installation procedure? Nomacs support a semi-transparent widget that display additional information such as thumbnails, metadata or histogram.