How to install sView on Ubuntu 17.04
To install sView on Ubuntu 17.04
sView is an easy to use cross-platform stereoscopic 3D media player which can be used to view 3D images, videos, CAD models, etc. It deploys an independent application with customized user-friendly interface. When it comes the 3D Image Viewer of sView, you can use images of many popular formats such as JPEG, PNG, MPO, BMP, EXR, TGA, Web, etc. Also, the 3D Movie Player of sView is capable of playing several formats such as MKV, WebM, OGM, AVI, FLAC, RMVB and many others. You can easily install sView and this tutorial will help you with the installation of sView on Ubuntu 17.04
Installing sView
Before you start with the installation of sView, it is very essential to add the necessary repositories onto your system. You can do that via ppa as follows.
root@linuxhelp:~# add-apt-repository ppa:sview/stable This is an official repository for sView project. sView is an open-source cross-platform media player / viewer with additional features for displaying stereoscopic content. It supports 360-degrees spherical and cubemap panoramas, images and videos in side-by-side / over-under stereoscopic formats, and many other features. Read more info from official site: http://www.sview.ru To launch sView from command line you should type one of the options: sView --in=image sView --in=video sView media_file_name More info: https://launchpad.net/~sview/+archive/ubuntu/stable Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it gpg: keybox ' /tmp/tmppbmqe1oc/pubring.gpg' created gpg: /tmp/tmppbmqe1oc/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created gpg: key 4B295008E0F37BC3: public key " Launchpad PPA for gkv311" imported gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 OK
Once the repositories are added, you should update your system. You shall use apt-get update command for the same purpose.
sitorroot@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/sview/stable/ubuntu zesty InRelease [15.4 kB]
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/sview/stable/ubuntu zesty/main i386 Packages [616 B]
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/sview/stable/ubuntu zesty/main amd64 Packages [616 B]
Hit:7 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports InRelease
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/sview/stable/ubuntu zesty/main Translation-en [244 B]
Fetched 16.9 kB in 4s (4,102 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Now is the time to install sView. Run the following command which kick-starts the installation process.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install sview Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libconfig++9v5 The following NEW packages will be installed: libconfig++9v5 sview 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 281 not upgraded. Need to get 7,412 kB of archives. After this operation, 12.5 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64 libconfig++9v5 amd64 1.5-0.3 [31.7 kB] .. . . . Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3+17.04.20170406-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-9ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu5) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-1) ... Setting up sview (17.04-1~zesty) ...
The sView application has been installed. You can launch the application using the activities search field.
Once the application appears on your screen, you will notice that it resembles the one present on the following image.
With this, the installation of sView on Ubuntu 17.04 gets completed.