How To Install Shotwell on Debian 8.3

To install Shotwell on Debian 8.3

Shotwell is the default digital photo manager on Ubuntu and Fedora. You can import all your photos directly from your disk or camera. You can organize your images through keywords and events, view them in full screen mode, and also share them through social media. Installing Shotwell is so simple, and this article covers the method involved with the installation of Shotwell on Debian 8.3

Installing Shotwell

The first and the foremost step is to add the repository to your system. Run the following command to open the sources.list file to which you need to add the repo.

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

Once the file is opened, add the following lines to the file.

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main

After adding the repo, save and close the file.

Once it is done, update your source file with the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease [145 kB]
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie InRelease       
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2,373 B]
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release [148 kB]                
Ign http://ftp.debian.org stable InRelease                        
Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [6,776 kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources [15.5 kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources [32 B]           
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,408 B]
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages [32 B]
Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en [14 B]
Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,704 B] 
Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release.gpg [2,373 B]                 
Get:12 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-03-14-2025.02.pdiff [526 B]
Get:13 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-03-14-2025.02.pdiff [526 B]
Get:14 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release [148 kB]        
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Fetched 23.4 MB in 3min 21s (116 kB/s)                                              
Reading package lists... Done

Now is the time to install Shotwell. Run the following command for the same purpose.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install shotwell
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libgexiv2-2 libraw10 shotwell-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgexiv2-2 libraw10 shotwell shotwell-common
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 264 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,025 kB of archives.
After this operation, 15.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
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Setting up shotwell (0.20.1-1+b1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u2) ...

Shotwell has been installed, use your Activities search bar to find and launch it.

It was an easy installation, wasn' t it? Shotwell is a very efficient photo management tool. it automatically sorts photos and videos by date, and lets you to tag the photos. You can also edit your images through Shotwell as you can straighten, crop, eliminate red eye, and adjust levels and color balance for your photographs.