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Install Darktable 2.2.5 via Snap in Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 & Higher

Last updated: September 6, 2017

Darktable 2.2.5

The latest release of Darktable photo workflow software 2.2.5 now is available as Snap app for Ubuntu desktop.

The Darktable snap app bundles most of the required libraries and runtimes. So you can run the latest Darktable 2.2.5 in Ubuntu 14.04 though the stable PPA does no longer update for it.

And all other current Ubuntu releases, Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 17.04, can install Darktable snap app without affecting the rest of the system.

Darktable 2.2.5

1. For Ubuntu 14.04 only, open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or from app launcher. Then run command to install snapd daemon.

sudo apt-get install snapd snapd-xdg-open

2. Then install the Darktable snap app via command:

sudo snap install darktable-empanada --classic

install darktable snap

Once installed, launch the software either from your application launcher, or by running command:

/snap/bin/darktable-empanada

Uninstall:

To remove the snap version of Darktable, open terminal and run command:

sudo snap remove darktable-empanada
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2 responses to Install Darktable 2.2.5 via Snap in Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 & Higher

  1. justa November 17, 2017 at 10:35 pm

    Hi,
    I tried it,but it doesn’work:

    $ /snap/bin/darktable-empanada2017/11/17 23:32:01.793513 cmd_run.go:275: WARNING: XAUTHORITY environment value is not a clean path: “/run/gdm/auth-for-justa-yLlNP2/database”

    ju