Mithun Madhusoodanan

a.k.a mantleCurve

January 5, 2018

Install flameshot on ubuntu 16.04

Update 2

In ubuntu 18.04, flameshot can be installed directly

sudo apt install flameshot

Update

There is a ppa for this now. Follow the below link

https://launchpad.net/~harish2704/+archive/ubuntu/ppa1

First check whether you have git installed

sudo apt install git

Clone the repository using this command

git clone https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot.git

Go to the clone directory

cd flameshot

Install the dependencies

sudo apt install -y git g++ build-essential qt5-qmake qt5-default qttools5-dev-tools

Compile and install using qmake and make install

qmake

make install #desktop entry fails with warning

To use it

flameshot gui #via terminal

Enjoy smile

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Mithun

Julio Alexander Sieg
July 18, 2018 at 1:18 am
To use it on keyboard shortcut just add an shortcut calling “flameshot gui” and the prntscr button (working on ubuntu 16.04)
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Alkesh Miyani
August 17, 2018 at 12:20 pm
All the above steps followed by me and finally there is no result.
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1. Mithun
  August 17, 2018 at 12:38 pm
  There is a ppa now. Isn’t it working? I will update the post after checking them.
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Mina Mikhail
September 4, 2018 at 9:41 am
On 16.04 qmake will fail
//Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: svg
requires libqt5svg5-dev
$ sudo apt install libqt5svg5-dev
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Mamud
October 15, 2019 at 1:34 pm
You have to install libqt5svg5-dev
Anyway the tip works for me
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