Install Shotwell Photo Manager in Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/Linux Mint

Install Shotwell Photo Manager in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Ubuntu 11.10/Linux Mint 14/13/12 and previous Ubuntu/Mint Versions

Shotwell is a digital photo organizer that runs on Linux. Shotwell is an efficient photo organizer designed specifically for the GNOME desktop. It can edit, sort, import, and organize the image collection of the users in fast and secure manner.

What's new in this Release:

• Raw and enhanced image - It’s smarter at keeping paired images together now.
• Better reporting and options to save the details, if something fails.
• Shotwell using new Facebook Graph API‘d
• New types of circular, checkboardular, nifty new wipes.
• Along with all this come many bugs fixed, UI nits squashed and glitches – now fixed.

Shotwell will ship as default photo manager in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring

To install shotwell in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install shotwell

That's it

Source: yorba