How to install Fotoxx on Ubuntu 20.04 – A image editor for Linux

Fotoxx is a free and open source Linux application for image editing and collection management. It may not have a modern user interface, but it is fast in handling a large collection of photos.

You can import a huge collection of photos, including RAW images and perform all processing in deep color. Edited images can be saved as JPEG, TIFF, or PNG. Even you can edit image metadata like tags, dates, geotags, ratings, captions etc. You can search images based on these matadata.

Gallery thumbnails can vary from small to huge. The image can be zoomed, panned and scrolled using the mouse. You can select images to create albums and slideshows and all this happens without duplicating the images. Click on a thumbnail for a full window view of the image. Popup windows can be used to view multiple images at any scale.

Several tools are available to change size and shape such as resize, crop, fix perspective, rotate, curve/warp the whole image or selected areas within the image. Photos can be combined to create 360-degree panoramas. There is a special tool to ‘flatten’ photos of curved surfaces.

Installing Fotoxx from Ubuntu apt repository

Fotoxx is included in Ubuntu 20.04. Follow the step by step guide to install the application.

Step #1

Type the following command to update the apt sources.

$ sudo apt update

Step #2

Now execute this command to install the Fotoxx package.

$ sudo apt install fotoxx

With the help of && you can write both the commands in a single line. Something like this:

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install fotoxx

At this step, you have successfully installed Fotoxx on Ubuntu 20.04 system.

Starting Fotoxx

Fotoxx can be launched from the command line by typing fotoxx or In the Activities search bar type “Fotoxx” and click on the icon.

Fotoxx User Interface:

How to Uninstall Fotoxx from Ubuntu 20.04

For some reason, If you want to uninstall Fotoxx, type the following command.

$ sudo apt remove fotoxx

Conclusion

I hope that now you have a good understanding of How to install Fotoxx on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa.

If anyone does have any questions about what we covered in this guide then feel free to ask in the comment section below and I will do my best to answer those.