How to install Entangle on ParrotOS 3.9

To install Entangle on ParrotOS 3.9

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. It is so simple to install Entangle on ParrotOS 3.9 and this tutorial covers the ground on the same process.

Installing Entangle

To start the installation procedure, you need to add the repo by executing the following command.

┌─[root@linuxhelp]─[~]
└──╼ #vim /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

And then, you shall update the newly added repository by making use of the following command.

┌─[root@linuxhelp]─[~]
└──╼ #apt-get update
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates InRelease [63.0 kB]
Get:2 http://deb.parrotsec.org/parrot stable InRelease [14.6 kB]
Get:3 http://deb.parrotsec.org/parrot stable/main amd64 Packages [16.2 MB]
Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main Sources [98.6 kB]
Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main amd64 Packages [254 kB]
Get:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main Translation-en [110 kB]
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports InRelease [91.8 kB]       
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Sources [160 kB]     
Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main amd64 Packages [199 kB]
Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Translation-en [132 kB]
Get:11 http://deb.parrotsec.org/parrot stable/contrib amd64 Packages [132 kB]  
Get:12 http://deb.parrotsec.org/parrot stable/non-free amd64 Packages [187 kB] 
Fetched 17.6 MB in 3min 59s (73.6 kB/s)                                        
Reading package lists... Done

You shall now proceed with the installation of Entangle by executing the following command.

┌─[root@linuxhelp]─[~]
└──╼ #apt-get install entangle 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libgexiv2-2 libraw16
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  entangle libgexiv2-2 libraw16
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1258 not upgraded.
Need to get 713 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,539 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
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Processing 1 added doc-base file...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-1) ...
Setting up libraw16:amd64 (0.18.5-1) ...
Setting up entangle (0.7.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-17) ...
Configuring sandbox profiles....
Sandbox profiles updated!

Entangle has been installed. You can launch it from your ParrotOS Applications. Choose Graphics Entangle to launch the application.

The Entangle application looks as the one in the following image.

With this, the installation of Entangle on ParrotOS 3.9