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How to Install Picty photo manager in Ubuntu

To install Picty photo manager in Ubuntu

Picty is an open-source photo collection manager used to manage your favorite photos. It is especially designed around managing metadata and lossless approach for image handling. Picty is featured with folder view and multi-monitor support. In addition, it supports both web-based and local collections. Installation of Picty photo manager in Ubuntu is explained in this manual.

Installation of Picty

Before installing the picty, add the repository file by using the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:damien-moore/ppa
 picty Photo Manager
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~damien-moore/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp9xv4h0d2/secring.gpg'  created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp9xv4h0d2/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: requesting key C99E40E1 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmp9xv4h0d2/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key C99E40E1: public key " Launchpad PPA for spillz"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK


Update the newly added repository with the " apt-get update" command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update 
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [95.7 kB]                  
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease                                        
Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/damien-moore/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]                        
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease                            
Get:6 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [376 kB]
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/damien-moore/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [520 B]
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/damien-moore/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [524 B]
Get:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/damien-moore/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [176 B]
Get:10 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages [371 kB]
Get:11 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main Translation-en [142 kB]
Get:12 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [319 kB]
Get:13 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [316 kB]
Get:14 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe Translation-en [109 kB]
Fetched 1,747 kB in 4s (395 kB/s)                              
Reading package lists... Done


Finally run the below command to install the picty package.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install picty -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libpango1.0-0 libpangox-1.0-0 linux-headers-4.4.0-21 linux-headers-4.4.0-21-generic linux-image-4.4.0-21-generic
  linux-image-extra-4.4.0-21-generic
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  dcraw javascript-common libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libboost-python1.58.0 libglade2-0
  libgnome-2-0 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-bin libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common
  libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libidl-2-0 libjs-jquery liborbit-2-0 liborbit2 python-blinker python-cairo python-cffi-backend
  python-chardet python-crypto python-cryptography python-enum34 python-flickrapi python-gconf python-gdata python-gnome2
  python-gobject-2 python-gtk2 python-idna python-ipaddress python-jwt python-ndg-httpsclient python-oauthlib python-openssl
  python-pil python-pkg-resources python-pyasn1 python-pyexiv2 python-pyexiv2-doc python-pyinotify python-pyorbit python-requests
  python-requests-oauthlib python-requests-toolbelt python-six python-urllib3
Suggested packages:
  gphoto2 apache2 | lighttpd | httpd libbonobo2-bin desktop-base gnome-icon-theme libgnomevfs2-bin libgnomevfs2-extra gamin | fam
  gnome-mime-data python-blinker-doc python-crypto-dbg python-crypto-doc python-cryptography-doc python-cryptography-vectors
  python-enum34-doc python-gnome2-doc python-gdata-doc python-twisted-core python-gobject-2-dbg python-gtk2-doc python-openssl-doc
  python-openssl-dbg python-pil-doc python-pil-dbg python-setuptools python-pyinotify-doc python-ntlm
.
.
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Setting up python-gtk2 (2.24.0-4ubuntu1) ...
Setting up python-pyorbit (2.24.0-7.1) ...
Setting up python-gnome2 (2.28.1+dfsg-1.1) ...
Setting up python-openssl (0.15.1-2build1) ...
Setting up python-ndg-httpsclient (0.4.0-3) ...
Setting up python-pil:amd64 (3.1.2-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up python-pyexiv2 (0.3.2-5ubuntu4build2) ...
Setting up python-pyexiv2-doc (0.3.2-5ubuntu4build2) ...
Setting up python-pyinotify (0.9.6-0fakesync1) ...
Setting up dcraw (9.21-0.2) ...
Setting up picty (1testing-r800~ubuntu16.04.1) ...
Setting up python-gdata (2.0.18+dfsg1-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...


To open the picty, type the name in the search bar of Unity dash. Then click on the picty icon.

Now you can access the picty software, which is designed with advanced features.

To remove Picty package

Remove the picty package with the below command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get remove picty -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  dcraw javascript-common libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libboost-python1.58.0 libglade2-0
  libgnome-2-0 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-bin libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common
  libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libidl-2-0 libjs-jquery liborbit-2-0 liborbit2 libpango1.0-0 libpangox-1.0-0
  linux-headers-4.4.0-21 linux-headers-4.4.0-21-generic linux-image-4.4.0-21-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-21-generic
  python-blinker python-cairo python-cffi-backend python-chardet python-crypto python-cryptography python-enum34 python-flickrapi
  python-gconf python-gdata python-gnome2 python-gobject-2 python-gtk2 python-idna python-ipaddress python-jwt
  python-ndg-httpsclient python-oauthlib python-openssl python-pil python-pkg-resources python-pyasn1 python-pyexiv2
  python-pyexiv2-doc python-pyinotify python-pyorbit python-requests python-requests-oauthlib python-requests-toolbelt python-six
  python-urllib3
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  picty
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,229 kB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 240422 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing picty (1testing-r800~ubuntu16.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
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