Getting Started

Installation

You have two options for running picty: install from binary packages, or download and run the source directly. The windows version lacks some of the features of the linux version.

Binary Packages

Unstable, testing releases are available for

• Windows users: sourceforge hosted binaries at http://sourceforge.net/projects/picty/files

• Ubuntu users: install the picty PPA following the directions at http://launchpad.net/~damien-moore/+archive/ppa

Running from Source

Windows

You will need to download:

• Python 2.7 from www.python.org
• PyGtk 2.0 all-in-one installer from http://www.pygtk.org/downloads.html
• pyexiv2 installer from http://tilloy.net/dev/pyexiv2/download.html (make sure you get the python 2.7 version)
• Bazaar Version Control Sytem: http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/Download
• Optional: osmgpsmap (for GPS mapping plugin to work)
• Optional: flickrapi (for flickr support)

Open a terminal (Start menu -> Run -> Cmd.exe) and type:

cd <directory to locate picty>
bzr branch lp:picty
cd picty
c:\python27\python bin\picty

Ubuntu and other Debian Based Linux System

To install the required dependencies, open a linux terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install bzr python-pyinotify python-pyexiv2 python-gtk2 python-gnome2 dcraw python-osmgpsmap python-flickrapi

(bzr is to get the code, and dcraw, python-osmgpsmap and python-flickrapi are optional)

To get the code:

cd <directory to locate picty>
bzr branch lp:picty

To run:

cd picty
bin/picty

to update to the latest version

cd picty
bzr pull

you can also install the program into the system, which means picty will show up in your system application menus and be registered as a handler for cameras and image files -- see the INSTALL file

Other Linux

The basic instructions for Ubuntu and other Debian based systems will apply except that you won't be using apt-get to install the packages and the packages may be named slightly differently.

Running picty for the First Time

When you run picty for the first time you will be greeted with the following window: