How to install Darktable on MX Linux 17
How to install Darktable on MX Linux 17
Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer for 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. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of Digikam on MX Linux 17.
Installation
Update the system repository using the following command
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://ftp.cn.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease
Ign:4 http://ftp.cn.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:5 http://ftp.cn.debian.org/debian stretch Release
Hit:6 http://www.deb-multimedia.org stretch InRelease
Hit:7 http://ftp.yzu.edu.tw/Linux/mx-workspace/antix/stretch stretch InRelease
Hit:9 http://ftp.yzu.edu.tw/Linux/mx-workspace/mx/repo stretch InRelease
Hit:10 http://ftp.yzu.edu.tw/Linux/mx-workspace/mx/testrepo stretch InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Install the Darktable package using the following command
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install darktable -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 gir1.2-soup-2.4 libdirectfb-1.2-9 libgegl-0.3-0
libgoo-canvas-perl libgoocanvas-common libgoocanvas3 libgtk2-ex-simple-list-perl
libgtk2-imageview-perl libgtkimageview0 liblastfm1 liblivemedia57 libmygpo-qt1
libopenmpt-modplug1 libpgm-5.2-0 libqjson0 libqt4-declarative libqt4-designer libqt4-help
libqt4-network libqt4-script libqt4-scripttools libqt4-svg libqt4-test libqt4-xmlpatterns
libqtassistantclient4 libqxt-core0 libqxt-gui0 libsane-perl libsdl-image1.2 libsodium18
libvlccore8 libx264-148 libzmq5 python-qt4
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
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Setting up libcolord-gtk1:amd64 (0.1.26-1.1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60) ...
Setting up libflickcurl0:amd64 (1.26-2+deb9u1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1) ...
Setting up libgraphicsmagick-q16-3 (1.3.25-8) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u3) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Setting up libjs-prototype (1.7.1-3) ...
Setting up liblua5.3-0:amd64 (5.3.3-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-1) ...
Setting up libosmgpsmap-1.0-1:amd64 (1.1.0-1) ...
Setting up libjs-scriptaculous (1.9.0-2) ...
Setting up darktable (2.4.4-0.1~mx17+1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u3) ...
Once Installation is done you can access the Darktable from the Menu as shown here
Darktable application
The version of Darktable can be found in Help-> About
With this, the method to install Darktable on MX Linux 17 comes to an end.
Q
I read in the manual about changing some configuration setting, which supposed to be located in the user config directory. Where is the config file in the Windows version?
A
The configuration file of darktable is located at C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\darktable\darktablerc. If you change it please use a text editor which can handle Unix line endings, like Notepad++ or similar.
Q
I was working with darktable and it suddenly just crashed! What should I do?
A
Don’t panic, sometimes it happens. If you can reproduce the crash, please file a bug report, and send the so called “backtrace” file as well. You can find the location of this backtrace file in the folder where the crash dialog indicates.
Q
What happened to the demosaic module in darkroom? How can I select more demosaicing algorithms?
A
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Q
How do I change the order in which modules are applied to an image?
A
You don’t. The order of the processing pixel pipeline is fixed and supposed to “just work”. If you have a (valid) use case where the order doesn’t work feel free to tell us. And if you really want to know the reason why this is fixed you may want to have a look at the output SVG of tools/iop_dependencies.py
Q
What happened to the demosaic module in darkroom? How can I select more demosaicing algorithms?
A
We moved the demosaicing into our internal pixel pipeline. The benefit is that it is faster and more accurate. The downside is that we have to implement the demosaicing algorithms ourselves. Since the differences are really small with real world photos we didn’t bother to port more than PPG and AMaZE. If anyone feels the need for more choice we will gladly accept patches.