DigiKam 4.9.0 released, Install/Update on (K)ubuntu, Debian, Arch Linux, Mandriva, Mageia, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Gentoo Linux

DigiKam 4.9.0 released, Install/Update on (K)Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Debian 8 "jessie", Debian 7 "wheezy, Arch Linux, Mandriva, Mageia 5, Mageia 4, OpenSUSE 13.1, OpenSUSE 13.2, Fedora 22, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, Gentoo Linux

digiKam is an open source project that provides users with a dedicated photo management solution, specifically designed to be deployed on KDE desktop environments. It includes image editor and organizer components, which can be easily extended through a built-in and powerful plugin architecture.

Features at a glance

Key features include red eyes correction, brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, saturation and luminosity correction, color balance, color inversion, color auto-correction, ratio cropping, free cropping, black & white and tonality converter using curves adjustments, rotation, and flipping.

With this tool, you will be able to import pictures, organize your photo collection, view images, edit and enhance photos, create slideshows and calendars, print and share your photo creations using social web services, email images, and much more.

What's new in digiKam 4.9.0:

This release includes a new sets of bugs fixes from Maik Qualmann who maintain KDE4 version while KF5 port is under progress.

Install/Update DigiKam 4.9.0 on (K)Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Debian 8 "jessie", Debian 7 "wheezy, Arch Linux, Mandriva, Mageia 5, Mageia 4, OpenSUSE 13.1, OpenSUSE 13.2, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, Gentoo Linux

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

You can install digiKam using pre-compiled version of digiKam. This is done by your distribution. A disadvantage is that in some cases the version provided by your distribution is not the latest stable version the digiKam team has released. The links given below will give you information about which version your distribution packages.

Distribution	Link to the list of digiKam packages	Command line to install
Kubuntu	here	apt-get install digikam
Ubuntu	here	apt-get install digikam
Debian	here and reason why the latest version of packages is not in testing can be found here	apt-get install digikam
Arch Linux	here	pacman -Sy digikam
Ark Linux	here	apt-get install digikam
Mandriva/Mageia Linux	here	urpmi digikam
SUSE Linux	here	yast -i digikam
Fedora Linux	here	yum install digikam
Gentoo Linux	here	emerge digikam

You can install digiKam using pre-compiled version of digiKam. This is done by your distribution. A disadvantage is that in some cases the version provided by your distribution is not the latest stable version the digiKam team has released. The links given below will give you information about which version your distribution packages.

Distribution	Link to the list of digiKam packages	Command line to install
Kubuntu	here	apt-get install digikam
Ubuntu	here	apt-get install digikam
Debian	here and reason why the latest version of packages is not in testing can be found here	apt-get install digikam
Arch Linux	here	pacman -Sy digikam
Ark Linux	here	apt-get install digikam
Mandriva/Mageia Linux	here	urpmi digikam
SUSE Linux	here	yast -i digikam
Fedora Linux	here	yum install digikam
Gentoo Linux	here	emerge digikam

- See more at: http://media-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/02/digikam-480-released-installupdate-on.html#sthash.wJIc75MK.dpuf

Install/Update DigiKam 4.8.0 on (K)Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Debian 8 "jessie", Debian 7 "wheezy, Arch Linux, Mandriva, Mageia 5, Mageia 4, OpenSUSE 13.1, OpenSUSE 13.2, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, Gentoo Linux  : - See more at: http://media-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/02/digikam-480-released-installupdate-on.html#sthash.wJIc75MK.dpuf

DigiKam 4.8.0 released, Install/Update on (K)Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Debian 8 "jessie", Debian 7 "wheezy, Arch Linux, Mandriva, Mageia 5, Mageia 4, OpenSUSE 13.1, OpenSUSE 13.2, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, Gentoo Linux - See more at: http://media-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/02/digikam-480-released-installupdate-on.html#sthash.wJIc75MK.dpuf

DigiKam 4.8.0 released, Install/Update on (K)Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Debian 8 "jessie", Debian 7 "wheezy, Arch Linux, Mandriva, Mageia 5, Mageia 4, OpenSUSE 13.1, OpenSUSE 13.2, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, Gentoo Linux - See more at: http://media-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/02/digikam-480-released-installupdate-on.html#sthash.wJIc75MK.dpuf

DigiKam 4.8.0 released, Install/Update on (K)ubuntu, Debian, Arch Linux, Mandriva, Mageia, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Gentoo Linux - See more at: http://media-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/02/digikam-480-released-installupdate-on.html#sthash.wJIc75MK.dpuf

DigiKam 4.8.0 released, Install/Update on (K)ubuntu, Debian, Arch Linux, Mandriva, Mageia, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Gentoo Linux - See more at: http://media-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/02/digikam-480-released-installupdate-on.html#sthash.wJIc75MK.dpuf

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

Tag ; Darktable 1.6.4 ppa ubuntu / Darktable 1.6.4 ppa linux mint / Darktable 1.6.4 ubuntu 14.10 / ubuntu 14.04 / ubuntu 15.04 / Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca / Linux Mint 17 Qiana / OSX / Fedora 20 / Fedora 21 / Fedora 22 / openSUSE 13.2 / openSUSE 13.1

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.

Blender 2.74 Out Now, Available for Mac OSX, Windows, Linux Ubuntu and Linux Mint [PPA]

Blender 2.74 Out Now with New Tools, Add-Ons, and Dozens of Improvements

The Blender Foundation is proud to announce today, March 31, the immediate availability for download of the Blender 2.74 free, open-source 3D modelling software that is used by many professional designers to create stunning graphics and models for Hollywood movies.

Highlights of Blender 2.74 include Cycles Render improvements, support for Custom Normals, new Viewport features, an all-new “Cavity Mask” tool, several improvements to the Game engine and Grease pencil, a number of improvements to the hair dynamics and editing tools, as well as great memory consumption optimizations in Freestyle NPR stroke rendering.

In detail, we can mention that the Cycles Render component received several memory, noise, speed, and precision improvements, as well as a brand-new Pointiness attribute for the Geometry node, which can be used to control texture space of a single object by another.

Supports a wide range of image file types, animations and movies

Blender allows for photorealistic rendering, fast modelling, fast rigging, sculpting, fast UV unwrapping, amazing simulations, camera and object tracking, and much more. The application provides import and export support for various image file types, such as JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, TIFF, TAGA, DPX, Radiance HDR, SGI Iris, Cineon, and OpenEXR. In addition, it can import or export animations and movies to MPEG, AVI and Quicktime file formats, and 3D models for 3D Studio (3DS), X3D, STL, Autodesk (DXF), DirectX (x), Motion Capture (BVH), Lightwave (LWO), SVG, Filmbox (FBX), Stanford PLY, Wavefront (OBJ), VRML, VRML97, and COLLADA (DAE).

What is Blender ?

Blender is an open source application for creating professional 2D/3D graphics, models and animation on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. The truth is that Blender is targeted at advanced users and enthusiasts who know what they are doing. However, new users can find comprehensive documentation and tutorials on the official website, which will help them to get started with Blender.

What's new in Blender 2.74:

• Cycles got a few optimizations, a new "Pointiness" attribute and objects can now use the texture maps from other objects, the Viewport is now able to display Ambient Occlusion and Depth of Field, the Outliner was improved in quite some ways, it is now possible to edit normals, the Hair tools developed for the Gooseberry Project are now available (including improved hair dynamics, child hair modifiers and various interaction tools), texture painting can now be done using Cavity Masks, Freestyle memory consumption was greatly improved, the Grease Pencil rewrite from Blender 2.73 was continued to make more editing tools available, improvements for animation interaction and many more features which are worth checking out!

More Features

• .blend Files & Libraries: generation and saving of previews for materials, textures, lamps, world and images datablocks.
• Background images can now be rotated and flipped.
• Compositing: Plane Track Deform, Multilayer EXR nodes improved; memory usage optimization.
• Sequencer: Slip tool, Setting proxies improved; preview individual strips (feature back from Blender 2.4x)
• Added gamma node support for Blender Internal
• Added MotionTracking operator to filter tracks based on how smooth their motion is
• Many other small Improvements
• Blender 2.74 brings numerous other new features, so it is recommended to check the official release notes for more details.

Install Blender 2.74 on Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca via PPA

Because it will be added soon in the Blender PPA, installing Blender 2.74 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS and Elementary OS systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the needed repository. Like this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cheleb/blender-svn
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender

Optional, to remove blender, do:

sudo apt-get remove blender  

Download for Mac OSX 64 bit
Download for Windows 7 | 8 | Vista ( 64 bit & 32 bit )

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

For More information about download Blender 2.74 you visit this page.

Install / Update gCAD3D V2.22 on Linux Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian Derivative System

Install / Update gCAD3D V2.22 on Linux Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian Derivative System

gCAD3D is a 3D CAD-CAM application that features an integrated 3D OpenGL viewer, a program interpreter for geometry and NC-commands in 3D, an integrated NC-processor, and a programming interface for user programs. It has support for importing Step files and support for both importing and exporting Iges, DXF, and VRML files, and for exporting SVG.

gCAD3D V2.22 Changelog:

 

- dxf-import: bug POLYLINES and rotation (code 50) with INSERT fixed
- dxf-export: export contours
- Step-import: new functions and bugfixes
- structure of contour (CCV) completely changed.
- CAD-Measure can select vertex-points
- CAD-Interaction checkbox, can modify all numeric values

Install / Update gCAD3D V2.22 onUbuntu 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, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

For Linux System 32 bit :

wget -c http://www.gcad3d.org/download/gCAD3D-2.22-Linux-x86.deb
sudo dpkg -i gCAD3D-2.22-Linux-x86.deb
sudo rm -rf gCAD3D-2.22-Linux-x86.deb

For Linux System 64 bit :

wget -c http://www.gcad3d.org/download/gCAD3D-2.22-Linux64.deb
sudo dpkg -i http://www.gcad3d.org/download/gCAD3D-2.22-Linux64.deb
sudo rm -rf http://www.gcad3d.org/download/gCAD3D-2.22-Linux64.deb

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