The latest version of Rapid Photo Downloader is 0.1.3. It runs on Lucid Lynx (10.04 LTS), Karmic Koala (9.10), Jaunty Jackalope (9.04), Intrepid Ibex (8.10), and Hardy Heron (8.04 LTS). It also runs just fine on Kubuntu 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 click here to read more.
Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala, introduces convenient new ways to add PPA repositories. You can use Ubuntu's easy to use graphical tools to add the following to your Software Sources:
However, it is probably still more easily done from the command line, where you can install the program in three easy steps:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rapid-photo-downloader
You can skip the step below of adding the repository's key, because adding the PPA automatically adds it.
If you run Jaunty Jackalope (9.04), add these two entries to your list of third party repositories:
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/dlynch3/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
If you run Intrepid Ibex (8.10), add these two entries to your list of third party repositories:
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/dlynch3/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
If you run Hardy Heron (8.04 LTS), add these two entries to your list of third party repositories:
This step is unnecessary for Ubuntu 9.10 (see above). These instructions are closely based on Ubuntu's official documentation.
As explained in Ubuntu's instructions, a PPA has its own unique key that is used to sign the packages in that archive. Until you add the Rapid Photo Downloaders PPA key to your own system, you'll see warnings that you're downloading from an untrusted source.
- 1Click here to visit the PPA's overview page, found at Ubuntu's Launchpad.
- 2Click the key fingerprint on the overview page. It looks like this: 1024R/264A3DFB.
- 3This will take you to the key's page in the Ubuntu keyserver. Click the ID, which looks like this: 264A3DFB.
- 4Copy the public key, which will be the portion starting:
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: SKS 1.0.10
up to and including:
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- - 5Paste the public key into a text editor and save it.
- 6Open System->Administration->Software Sources and click the Authentication tab.
- 7Click Import Key File, select the key you saved earlier and you're done!
The name of the package to install is rapid-photo-downloader.
