{"id":4555,"date":"2015-01-20T15:27:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T15:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4555"},"modified":"2015-01-20T15:27:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T15:27:32","slug":"install-photoqt-image-viewer-in-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/01\/install-photoqt-image-viewer-in-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install PhotoQt Image Viewer in Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/photoqt-logo-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/photoqt-logo-icon.png\" alt=\"PhotoQt Image Viewer\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/photoqt-logo-icon.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/photoqt-logo-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PhotoQt is an open-source Qt based image viewer designed to be fast, simple, good looking, yet powerful and highly configurable.<\/p>\n<p>This full screen image viewer features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Based on Qt5<\/li>\n<li>Support of many image formats (use of GraphicsMagick)<\/li>\n<li>Rotating, flipping, zooming images &#8211; no permanent changes<\/li>\n<li>Scaling images &#8211; permanent change<\/li>\n<li>Basic File Management (Renaming, Deleting, Moving, Copying)<\/li>\n<li>Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts<\/li>\n<li>Set-as-Wallpaper function<\/li>\n<li>Slideshow feature<\/li>\n<li>Exif information<\/li>\n<li>Highly Adjustable to your custom preference<\/li>\n<li>Interface that doesn&#8217;t get into your way<\/li>\n<li>Very fast and flexible<\/li>\n<li>Thumbnail Cache<\/li>\n<li>System Tray Usage<\/li>\n<li>Command Line Options<\/li>\n<li>Several translations available<\/li>\n<li>and much more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/01Normal.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/01Normal-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoQt Image view\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/01Normal-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/01Normal.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/02Shortcuts.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/02Shortcuts-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoQt Shortcuts\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/02Shortcuts-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/02Shortcuts.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/06Slideshow.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/06Slideshow-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoQt Slideshow\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/06Slideshow-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/06Slideshow.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Install PhotoQt in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The most recent release PhotoQt 1.2 brings XCF and PSB\/PSD support. It&#8217;s available in PPA for Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint 17.<\/p>\n<p>To install it, open terminal from the Dash or by pressing <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard. When it opens, do:<\/p>\n<p>1. Run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:samrog131\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p>Type in your user password when it asks.<\/p>\n<p>2. Update system package cache by running command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update<\/pre>\n<p>3. Finally install the image viewer:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install photoqt<\/pre>\n<p>If for some reason you want to remove PhotoQt as well as the PPA repository, run below command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove photoqt && sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:samrog131\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhotoQt is an open-source Qt based image viewer designed to be fast, simple, good looking, yet powerful and highly configurable. This full screen image viewer features: Based on Qt5 Support of many image formats (use of GraphicsMagick) Rotating, flipping, zooming images &#8211; no permanent changes Scaling images &#8211; permanent change Basic File Management (Renaming, Deleting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[575,1212],"class_list":["post-4555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-image-viewer","tag-photoqt"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}