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In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the latest version of fotoxx 18.01 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 17.04 / LinuxMint 18 and Fedora
The Latest Version of fotoxx is 18.01 and it is stable
Step 1: Download the Appimage using the below command
Changelog of fotoxx 18.01
- The image index format was revised, requiring a new index initialization.
- Image Index initialization: work is now divided among 4 parallel threads.
- On a computer with 4 processor cores and an SSD disk, indexing runs about
- 3x faster (ca. 6000/min), but no speedup for a rotating disk (1000/min).
- The maximum thread count for some functions was increased from 4 to 8, to better utilize the newest processors from Intel and AMD.
- Use of the shell "find" command was mostly replaced with calls to glob().
- This makes it fail-safe against special characters in file names.
- There is a new option to place the Fotoxx home directory wherever wanted.
- Retained geocoordinate precision was improved (about 1 meter).
- GTK widgets were downsized by reducing unnecessary margin padding.
- This can be revised or undone by editing the file "widgets.css".
- The custom [small] spin button widget now spins increasingly faster when the +/- key or up/down arrow key is held down more than 1 second.
Installation steps
For Ubuntu
Step 1: Download the Deb file from the official site using wgetwget https://www.kornelix.net/downloads/packages-16.04/fotoxx-18.01-x86_64.debStep 2: Install it by using dpkg
dpkg -i fotoxx-18.01-x86_64.debIf you face any dependency issue while installing give apt-get -f install, it will install the package
Install Fotoxx Via Appimage
Fotoxx Appimage package has been tested on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04, 17.10, Fedora 27, and LinuxMint 18.2Step 1: Download the Appimage using the below command
wget https://www.kornelix.net/downloads/appimages/fotoxx-18.01.1-appimageStep 2: Move it to the desired location, change the permissions and execute it
chmod 755 fotoxx-18.01.1-appimage && ./fotoxx-18.01.1-appimage
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