How to Install Entangle 0.5.2 in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.04, Linux Mint

As you may know, Entangle is a graphical interface for “tethered shooting”, aka taking photographs with a digital camera completely controlled from the computer. A new release 0.5.2 was released with bug fixes and improvements.

Changes:

Split histogram into RGB colour channels

Fix aperture / shutter speed calculations in status bar

Only import files with known image extensions

Use case insensitive file extension check to detect raw files

Set saner defaults for processing raw files to fix Canon raw display

Set preferences before loading session to fix settings for initial image load

Apply orientation from EXIF images if image file has none

Remove left over debug prints

Add support for linear histogram display mode

Support ‘h’ key to toggle linear/log histogram mode

Ensure all events are emitted in main thread

Remove use of deprecated GDK thread APIs

Use GtkGrid instead of deprecated GtkTable

Ensure status bar is constant size when scaling image

Preserve scrollbar offsets when switching images

Make metadata extraction more robust wrt missing fields

Updated translations from transifex

To install Entangle 0.5.2 in Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint 13, 15, Elementary OS. First add the get deb repository by downloading and installing the below deb package:

getdeb-repository_0.1-1~getdeb1_all.deb

For Linux Mint users, you may go to Software Sources -> Additional repositories -> archive.getdeb.net to enable the repository.

Then press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal and run commands to install it:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install entangle