How to install Darktable 1.6.4 on Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu Derivatives. Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer.
It is a virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
The latest version released is Darktable 1.6.4, and it has been updated with the following features and changes.
General improvements:
- major rawspeed update
- facebook exporter update (first authentication usability should be much better now)
- first run opencl benchmark to prevent opencl auto-activation if GPU is obviously slower than CPU
- lensfun cornercase fixes
- some mask cornercase fixes
- zonesystem now updates it’s gui when number of zones changes
- spots iop updates
- ui_last/gui_language should work more reliably now
- internal lua updated from 5.2.3 to 5.2.4 (distro typically use their own version of lua)
- gcc 5 should build now
Camera support:
- Canon Digital Rebel (non-european 300D)
- Nikon D5500 (experimental)
- Olympus E-M5 Mark II (experimental)
- Samsung NX500 (experimental)
Install Darktable 1.6.4 On Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 14.04
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Darktable 1.6.4 on Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 14.04:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmjdebruijn/darktable-release
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install darktable
To uninstall and remove Darktable from Ubuntu Systems:
sudo apt-get install darktable