FLAMESHOT - SCREENSHOT TOOL FOR LINUX

1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
2. FLAMESHOT FUNCTIONS
3. CREATING A .DEB PACKAGE FROM SOURCE CODE
4. FLAMESHOT INSTALLATION PROCESS
5. FLAMESHOT KEYBOARDS

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Flameshot is a simple yet very powerful tool with many additional features for creating and editing images. Using a graphical interface, it offers you many options to add text, draw arrows, lines, rectangles, circles and other interactive elements. In addition, Flameshot provides functions such as cropping, pinning, highlighting and blurring text parts, as well as manually creating various shapes. Screenshots can be easily saved to a local file or copied to the clipboard for pasting into other programs. Also included are features for customizing the look, support for both CLI and GUI, and integration with Imgur via the Flameshot Dbus interface. Lots of advanced settings, such as hiding icons or changing colors, will make your images more interactive. Flameshot also allows you to capture web pages and program menus.

Flameshot is lightweight, free and open source, which means that experienced developers can improve the program. It runs on many Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Linux Mint, Debian GNU/Linux, Bodhi Linux, Gentoo, Mandriva, Mageia, openSUSE, PCLinuxOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Slackware and many more.

The key features that set flameshot apart from other programs is the ability to highlight elements and add text to a newly created screenshot without having to save and open it in an image editor. These features were implemented in the sixth version of the program, and therefore choosing this particular version seems to be the most relevant to use.

FLAMESHOT FUNCTIONS

• Free, no need to pay money;
• Easy to use;
• Newly created images can be edited and inserted without saving;
• Wide range of possibilities for editing screenshots;
• Uploading images to Imgur;
• Lots of customization options;
• Dbus interface support;
• Hotkeys.

CREATING A .DEB PACKAGE FROM SOURCE CODE

Building from source requires certain utilities. Before starting work, install the minimum set that will be needed for the assembly process. These packages are: debhelper, dh-make, devscripts, fakeroot, build-essential, automake, gnupg, lintia. To build specific software, you will need developer versions of the libraries. It's better to install them as needed.

After installing the software, you are ready to build the Flameshot .deb package.

1. Prepare a directory to work in:

2. Go to the package page and find the link to the dsc file in the column on the right: flameshot_0.6.0+git20190714-1.dsc
   Download the package source code using the dget command:

3. As a result, three files with source code will be downloaded:

Unpack the .dsc file with the command:

4. Change to the new directory:

5. Start the package build procedure:

Most likely, the package cannot be built right away due to missing libraries. Libraries required for assembly: libqt5dbus5, libqt5network5, libqt5core5a, libqt5widgets5, libqt5gui5. Install them via apt and try building the package again. The package will be built and configured if all required packages are successfully installed. The makefile will be processed and the program will be compiled.

6. Check the received files:

7. Install the resulting package: flameshot_0.6.0+git20190714-1_amd64.deb

FLAMESHOT INSTALLATION PROCESS

• Download flameshot_0.6.0+git20191001-2_arm64.deb package;
• Install the DEB package using the dpkg command:

• Solve required dependencies:

• or install it with all the necessary dependencies automatically using the apt command:

FLAMESHOT KEYBOARDS