Entangle, free tethered camera control & capture software, released version 2.0 a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, and derivatives.
Entangle provides a graphical interface for “tethered shooting”, aka taking photographs with a digital camera completely controlled from the computer. The 2.0 release, “Sodium”, features:
- Document some missing keyboard shortcuts
- Fix upper bound in histogram to display clipped pixel
- Option to highlight over exposed pixels in red
- Disable noisy compiler warning
- Remove use of deprecated application menu concept
- Fix image redraw when changing some settings
- Update mailing list address in appdaat
- Add more fields to appdata content
- Fix reference counting during window close
- Use correct API for destroying top level windows
- Fix unmounting of cameras with newer gvfs URI naming scheme
- Avoid out of bounds read of property values
- Fix many memory leaks
- Workaround for combo boxes not displaying on Wayland
- Fix race condition in building enums
- Fix setting of gschema directory during startup
- Set env to ensure plugins can find introspection typelib
- Dependency libraries, and translation updates
How to install entangle 2.0 in Ubuntu / Linux Mint:
The new release packages has been made into an unofficial PPA, available for Ubuntu 18.04, Linux Ming 19.x, and Ubuntu 18.10. Due to requirement of GTK >= 3.22, Ubuntu 16.04 package is not supported any more.
1. Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut or from application launcher. When it opens, paste below command hit run to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
Type user password when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.
2. Then upgrade the software from an existing release via Software Updater:
or run command to install it in terminal:
sudo apt-get install entangle gir1.2-entangle-0.1
For Linux Mint, you may first run sudo apt-get update
to refresh system package cache.
Uninstall:
To remove the PPA, either open Software & Updates and navigate to Other Software tab, or run command in terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:dhor/myway
To remove the software, run command in terminal:
sudo apt-get remove --autoremove entangle
Many thanks for this howto – installation proceeded without a problem. I’ve been trying for several months to compile the latest Entangle v2.0 without success ….
The package installed on 64bit Ubuntu 18.04 for Intel/AMD64, which OS is also available for Raspberry Pi 3.
Would it be possible using your ppa to install Entangle on RPI 3 (current version of Entangle available through Raspbian apt-get install is 0.71) ?
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