June 26, 2010 — Stephen aka DigitalEagle
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I just upgraded to Lucid (Ubuntu 10.04), and I reinstalled Shutter. I had found it not too long ago, and it does a great job with screenshots. One of my favorite features is the way you can edit the screenshots and draw circles to point out things in the shot. It’s great for documentation.
Problem is, in Ubuntu 10.04, the Edit button is disabled. I found this bug post: Editing disabled in Ubuntu Lucid.
Solution: install the package: libgoo-canvas-perl
It was that easy, and now it is working like a charm!
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If you are using the latest Ubuntu (or any other debian-based distribution) you will notice that some features of Shutter are disabled by default.
You need to install two additional packages to enable these features again:
- Quit any running instance of Shutter
- sudo apt-get install libgoo-canvas-perl gnome-web-photo
- Launch Shutter
Why are those features disabled by default?
These packages are optional dependencies (this means that Shutter is able to start but with restricted functionality) and will be suggested to you when you install the Shutter package but the different tools like apt-get, aptitude, synaptic etc. handle suggested packages differently – at least apt-get does not install them automatically.
There are already some bug reports that are related to this issue but please note: This is not a bug in Shutter – it is just the way the official packages are build. Please use our PPA if you don’t want to install the packages manually.
