How to install Entangle on Debian 9.0

To install Entangle on Debian 9.0

Entangle is a free and open-source program that allows the tethered shooting from DSLR camera. The camera' s shutter can be triggered from the application. It supports live previews, automatic downloading and display of photos. This tutorial explains the installation procedure of Entangle in Debian 9.0.

Installation procedure

To proceed with the installation procedure, add the repo by running the nano command to open the sources.list configuration file. Now add these lines at end of the file and save it.

root@debian:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main

The required repositories are added. Update the apt-sources.list file and run the apt-get update command.

root@linuxhelppp:~# apt-get update
Ign:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports InRelease [91.8 kB]
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable-updates InRelease
Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates InRelease [62.9 kB]       
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Sources [86.5 kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main amd64 Packages [137 kB]              
Hit:7 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable Release      
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Translation-en [71.9 kB]
Get:10 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main Sources [60.9 kB]                 
Get:11 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main amd64 Packages [155 kB]
Get:12 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main Translation-en [70.1 kB]
Fetched 736 kB in 2s (337 kB/s)                               
Reading package lists... Done

The target system has been updated with the required repositories. Install the entangle package by running the following command.

root@linuxhelppp:~# apt-get install entangle
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libgtkspell0 libimage-magick-perl libimage-magick-q16-perl libmagick++-6.q16-7 libpotrace0
  python-bs4 python-html5lib python-lxml python-scour python-webencodings
Use ' apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libcurl3
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libcurl3 uget
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded.
Need to get 624 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,014 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
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Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-1) ...
Setting up uget (2.0.8-1+b1) ...

The entangle application is installed successfully. Now you can use the Entangle application for camera shooting purposes.

The installation procedure of Entangle on Debian 9.0 is done without any glitches.