The latest version of Rapid Photo Downloader is 0.4.3. It runs on all versions from Precise Pangolin (12.04 LTS) to Lucid Lynx (10.04 LTS). It also runs just fine on Kubuntu, Lubuntu and Xubuntu.

Installation under Ubuntu is an easy two-step process. First, setup the Launchpad PPA (Personal Package Archive) repository used by Rapid Photo Downloader. Second, install Rapid Photo Downloader in the usual way — for example, through apt-get or synaptic.

PPAs work like normal Ubuntu archives. Whenever Rapid Photo Downloader is updated, Ubuntu will prompt you to install it. The PPA for Rapid Photo Downloader is located at https://launchpad.net/~dlynch3/+archive/ppa.

If you don't know what it means to add a repository, or how to do it, then read more.

You can use Ubuntu's easy to use graphical tools to add the following to your Software Sources:

However, it is probably more easily done from the command line, where you can install the program in three easy steps:

Because version 0.4.0 requires Pyexiv2 0.3.0 or newer, Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 users first need to add the Pyexiv2 PPA:

All users should then run the following steps:

The name of the package to install is rapid-photo-downloader.

If you don't know how to install new packages, Ubuntu's official documentation contains instructions on how to do this.