Shutter is back in an official Ubuntu repository, but not Canonical's yet

Shutter available in your own PPA

Whenever I talk about Shutter I begin by saying that I used this program and that I loved it because of its editor. It is actually to take screenshots, but its editor allows us to open images from our hard drive and "mark" them from it. For security reasons, a dependency that was no longer supported, systems like Canonical's removed it from their official repositories, so you had to turn to others to be able to install it in Ubuntu and derivatives.

More recently, a version of Shutter appeared on Snapcraft, but the snap package it is somewhat (quite) trimmed. The today's news is that everything is solved and that the popular tool, which lost steam due to that problem, has made available in an official repository, but official of the project. Just like we tell you A few months ago, the latest changes would allow you to go back to the Canonical repositories, but this is something that hasn't happened yet.

The full version of Shutter available in its own PPA

To be able to install Shutter 0.97 in Ubuntu and derivatives, just open a terminal and write the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shutter/ppa
sudo apt update && sudo apt install shutter

Although in a previous article I said that its latest changes paved the way for it to return to the official Ubuntu repositories, I did not take into account that the same company that develops the operating system is the one behind the Snap packages. Perhaps for that reason he has not returned yet. Shutter 0.97 is available in the official Arch Linux repositories (community), so there is no problem with the software.

For those who do not know anything about Shutter, it is a tool to take screenshots that was replaced by Flameshot on some systems. It was not renewed in time and was about to die, but it has returned more alive than ever.


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