IMPORTANT! IF YOU RECEIVED THIS INSTALLER ZIP FILE FROM A THIRD PARTY, NOT THE DEVELOPER OR LAB, INSPECT THE INSTALLER SCRIPT BEFORE YOU RUN IT. IT RUNS UNDER SUDO.  A BAD ACTOR COULD SLIP 'rm -rf /' INTO IT, SOMETHING SIMILARLY SINISTER.

Starting with the 3.11.3 release, FTPhoto comes with a basic installer script for Linux. This is optional, as the tarball can be simply unzipped and run in your home directory. That is basically all we did before.

Note, again, that this is a simple script, and does not check for missing dependencies.  For this program to run at all, you need:

-gtk+3
-libunwind

Also, libwebkitgtk is needed for the Help and Price windows, as they display HTML.  In its absence, a non-fatal error message will display if these windows are invoked.

Having said all that, this should "just work" on out-of-the-box Ubuntu and Mint.  You might get lucky on other distros. Putting aside GTK+3, libunwind is the one most often missing. 


To install, open a terminal, cd to this directory and do sudo ./install.sh. The script will install the application into /opt/name-of-your-lab/.  The app will then be accessible in your applications menu, categorized under Graphics.

Linux is about choice.  Should you prefer another location over our choice of /opt--for example,/usr/local, simply edit the install.sh script. If you so do, remember to also edit the FTProofsheet.desktop file, making corresponding changes to the paths specified in the 'exec=' and 'icon=' lines.

If you have issues, it is more expeditious to contact the developer directly, than the lab.  You may do so at info@seafortyone.com.  An email link exists in the progam's "About.." window.

Enjoy!  
