How to Install Shutter Screenshot Tool on Ubuntu 20.04

May 28 Originally published at techvblogs.com ・1 min read

Introduction

Shutter is a free and open-source, feature-rich screenshot tool for Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu. Using Shutter we can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, and whole screen. Also, the keyboard-oriented print screen utility is also very basic and lacks many utilities needed to capture a customized screenshot.

Let’s check how to install Shutter on the latest Ubuntu 20.04 :

Install Shutter

Open terminal or via Ctrl + Alt + T keyboard shortcut or from application launcher. When it opens, run the command to add the PPA :

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:linuxuprising/shutter

Now, run the update command as follows:

sudo apt-get update

Now, Install Shutter:

sudo apt-get install shutter

Hooray! We installed Shutter .

Run Shutter tool:

Click on the Start button and search “ Shutter “.

Uninstall Shutter

If you want to uninstall Shutter through the command line, enter the following command:

sudo apt-get remove shutter

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