How to install Shutter screenshot tool on a Fedora Linux

Shutter is a popular screenshot tool for Linux that allows you to take screenshots, edit them, and upload them to various image hosting sites. To install Shutter on Fedora, you can use the dnf package manager.

  1. Open a terminal and update the package list by running the command:
sudo dnf update
  1. Install the Shutter package by running the command:
sudo dnf install shutter
  1. Once the installation is complete, you can start Shutter by running the command:
shutter
  1. Some of the feature that shutter provides requires additional dependencies, like the ability to take screenshots of specific windows or areas of the screen. To install these dependencies you can use the following command:
sudo dnf install libgnome2-perl libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-wnck-perl libgtk2-appindicator-perl
  1. Additionally, if you want to upload screenshots to image hosting sites like imgbb, you will need to install the libwww-mechanize-perl package
sudo dnf install libwww-mechanize-perl

Once you have all the dependencies installed, you can start Shutter and use its various features for taking screenshots, editing them, and uploading them to image hosting sites.

You can also use the dnf search command to look for the package before installing.

dnf search shutter

Please note that the package name may vary depending on the version of Fedora you are running.

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