How to install GScrot – Screenshot Tool

Update [  Feb 16 2009 ] – GScrot has been renamed to Shutter.

GScrot is a popular screen-shot tool for Linux. GScrot is currently at version 0.64. It runs best on GNOME and has a good feature list.

• Capture a website, whole desktop, individual window or a custom selection.
• Support for delayed screen-shots.
• Plug-ins for multiple effects.
• Support for FTP uploads and image hosting services. imageshack.us, imagebanana.com and ubuntu-pics.de.
• Save your screen-shots in the same folder everytime and automatically name them.
• Full intergration with GNOME desktop panel.
• Automatically generate thumbnails
• Built in image editing tool.

I’ll walk you through the process of installing GScrot on Ubuntu 8.10. I’m more of a command line guy so if you need a GUI version look here.

Create a new apt-repository source file. I’ll call it  gscrot.list and place it in the “/etc/apt/source.list.d/” directory.

Add the following lines to the /etc/apt/source.list.d/gscrot.list file you just created.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gscrot/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gscrot/ubuntu intrepid main

Next, run “apt-get update” to update the apt-repository database.

root@python:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt-get update

Run “apt-get install gscrot” to download and install GScrot.

root@python:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt-get install gscrot

To start GScrot, go to Applications –> Accessories –> GScrot

2 Responses to “How to install GScrot – Screenshot Tool”

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1. eyeb says:

   February 14, 2009 at 10:01 am

   Major change to repository: use “shutter” not gscrot.
   see here:

   BUT still use “gscrot” with apt-get as above. I used Hardy and it worked just fine.

   deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/shutter/ppa/ubuntu “dist name” main
   deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/shutter/ppa/ubuntu “dist name” main

   eyeb

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