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How to install Photivo on Ubuntu 18.04

To install Photivo on Ubuntu 18.04


Photivo is a free and open source photo processor for RAW and bitmap images with 16-bit precision. Photivo tries to give the user as much control as possible to express his creativity and to allow flexible adjustments for the various needs in photography. Photivo also has many other features and some of them are listed below.

Features

&bull 16-bit internal processing, color managed with LCMS2.
&bull Gimp workflow integration (import and export)
&bull Works with RAWs and Bitmaps (8-bit bitmaps are transformed and processed with 16 bit, which usually gives better results).
&bull CA correction, Green equilibration, line denoise, bad pixel reduction, wavelet denoise, median filters on RAW data.
&bull Adaptive saturation.
&bull Film grain simulation.
&bull Black and white conversion.
&bull (Split) Toning.

Installation

Add a new repository to install Photivo application

root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
 Every photographer needs some tools...

 More info: https://launchpad.net/~dhor/+archive/ubuntu/myway
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.
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Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dhor/myway/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages [3,624 B]
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dhor/myway/ubuntu bionic/main Translation-en [2,848 B]
Fetched 25.7 kB in 3s (8,320 B/s)                   
Reading package lists... Done

Update the system repository

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

Install a Photivo application using the following command

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install photivo -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
  libaprutil1-ldap
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
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Setting up libopencv-photo3.2:amd64 (3.2.0+dfsg-4build2) ...
Setting up libqt5dbus5:amd64 (5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libqt5network5:amd64 (5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libqt5gui5:amd64 (5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up qt5-gtk-platformtheme:amd64 (5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libqt5widgets5:amd64 (5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up photivo (20180606-1dhor~bionic) ...
Setting up libqt5svg5:amd64 (5.9.5-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...

After installing the application you can access it from the menu

Photivo application

With this, the method to install Photivo on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.

Tag : Ubuntu
FAQ
Q
How to get the Github repository for the Photivo?
A
For accessing the Github repository of the Photivo, use the following link as given below "https://github.com/nereocystis/photivo"
Q
what are the features available in Photivo?
A
The following features available in Photivo,
"http://photivo.org/features "
Q
Does the Photivo tool be helpful for photography?
A
yes it can, it is a powerful photo editor that works on both standard bitmap images and Raw photos
Q
How to download the Photivo application for Windows?
A
For download, the Photivo application for Windows, use the following link as given below "http://photivo.org/download/windows"
Q
How to get the official documentation for Photivo?
A
Get the official documentation for Photivo, use the following link as given below "http://photivo.org/manual/using_photivo"