Darktable 1.6.4 Released, Install on Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch Linux, Mac OSX, Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

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Darktable is an open source application that provides both amateur and enthusiasts photographers with a virtual lighttable and darkroom that allows them to manage their digital negatives in a single and handy database. It has been designed from the ground up to be used for developing RAW images from digital cameras.

Features at a glance

Key features include an astonishing graphical user interface designed for the modern computer user, support for importing single image files, folders, and scan for devices, ability to categorize images by numerous filters, such as ISO, color label, rights, creator, publisher, camera, date, time, title, lens, aperture, etc., as well as to access recently used collections.

In addition, the application lets users to view detailed information about an image, if available, such as lens, exposure, aperture, focal length, focus distance, ISO, model, maker, filmroll, image id, filename, version, full path, width, height, copyright, local copy, date, time, title, creator, latitude, and longitude.

It also features fully non-destructive editing, 4x32-bit floating point pixel buffers, GPU acceleration via OpenCL, built-in ICC profiles (sRGB, XYZ, linear RGB and Adobe RGB), zero-latency fullscreen mode, tethered shooting, flexible search functionality, powerful export system, and many translations.

The program is capable of importing a wide range of standard, RAW and HRD image formats, among which we can mention JPG, CR2, HDR, and PFM, and can export images to Picasa and Flickr, as well as to export to low dynamic range (JPEG, PNG, TIFF), linear high dynamic range (PFM, EXR) and 16-bit (PPM, TIFF) images.

What's new in darktable 1.6.4:

general improvements:

• major rawspeed update
• facebook exporter update (first authentication usability should be much better now)
• first run opencl benchmark to prevent opencl autoactivation 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's typically use their own version of lua)
• gcc 5 should build now

new camera support:

• canon digital rebel (non european 300d)
• nikon d5500 (experimental)
• olympus e-m5 mark ii (experimental)
• Samsung NX500 (experimental)

white balance presets:

• sony a77 ii
• fujiflim x-e2
• olympus e-m5 mark ii

noise profiles:

• canon 7d mark ii

updated translations:

• german
• french
• russian
• danish
• catalan
• japanese
• dutch

How To Install Darktable 1.6.4 on Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch Linux, Mac OSX, Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA :

to install/update Darktable 1.6.4 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmjdebruijn/darktable-release
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install darktable

or

• For stable releases add the Darktable Release PPA.
• If you are adventurous and are willing to deal with problems from time to time add the Darktable Unstable PPA. Don't use this PPA if you do time critical work with darktable!
• Follow the instructions on the Launchpad PPA page.
• Then search for "darktable" in the Software Center of Synaptic Package Manager and install it.
• You will find it under "Applications/Graphics/Darktable Photography Workflow Software"

If you want to have nice packages on debian you can rebuild the PPA sources for debian: Download "darktable_$VERSION.orig.tar.gz" and "darktable_$VERSION.debian.tar.gz" from one of the PPAs.

$ sudo apt-get install debhelper dpkg-dev fakeroot
$ sudo apt-get build-dep darktable
$ tar zxvf darktable_$VERSION.orig.tar.gz
$ cd darktable-$VERSION
$ tar zxvf ../darktable_$VERSION.debian.tar.gz
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

to install Darktable 1.6.4 on Mac OSX :

• Download the latest DMG disk image for darktable
• Mount the thing
• Pull the darktable icon into applications folder
• Good luck :)

to install Darktable 1.6.4 on Fedora 20, Fedora 21 and Fedora 22

# yum install darktable

If you want to build darktable from the source on Fedora, here are the build dependencies:

sudo yum install intltool atk-devel cairo-devel exiv2-devel fontconfig-devel freetype-devel libgomp gtk2-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel libtiff-devel lcms2-devel lensfun-devel libpng-devel libsq3-devel libstdc++-devel libxml2-devel OpenEXR-devel libcurl-devel libgphoto2-devel dbus-glib-devel libgnome-keyring-devel fop librsvg2-devel flickcurl-devel cmake libsoup-devel gcc-c++ colord-devel saxon libsecret-devel lua lua-devel GraphicsMagick openjpeg-devel json-glib-devel libwebp-devel SDL-devel

to install Darktable 1.6.4 on openSUSE 13.2, openSUSE 13.1

darktable is on the openSUSE repositories: openSUSE darktable packages.
And there is a repository for nightly builds.

to install Darktable 1.6.4 onArch Linux

$ pacman -S darktable

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.