How to Install Tethered Shooting App Entangle 0.6.1 in Ubuntu 14.04

Entangle is an open-source software for “tethered shooting”, aka taking photographs with a digital camera completely controlled from the computer.
With a digital SLR camera Entangle allows:

• Trigger the shutter from the computer
• Live preview of scene before shooting
• Automatic download and display of photos as they are shot
• Control of all camera settings from computer.

 Entangle is available in Ubuntu Software Center out-of-the-box, but Canonical does not provide updates for this software. Since Ubuntu repositories provide the 0.5.4 release for 14.04 LTS, Entangle has reached the 0.6.1 release recently with below changes:

• Require GTK >= 3.4
• Fix check for GIO package in configure
• Add missing icons to Makefile
• Follow freedesktop thumbnail standard storage location
• Refactor capture code to facilitate plugin script automation
• Fix bug causing plugin to be displayed more than once
• Make histogram height larger
• Strip trailing ’2′ from widget labels to be more friendly
• Completely rewrite control panel display to show a small, user configurable subset from all the camera controls.
• Remember custom list of camera controls per camera model
• Hide compiler warnings from new glib atomic opertaions
• Update to newer gnulib compiler warnings code
• Remove broken double buffering code that’s no required when using GTK3
• Remove use of deprecated GtkMisc APis
• Allow camera picker list to show multiple lines
• Remove crufty broken code from session browser that was breaking with new GTK versions
• Disable libraw auto brightness since it totally overexposes many images, generally making things look worse
• Fix memory leak handling camera events
• Add keywords to desktop & appdata files

Install or Upgrade Entangle:
Entangle 0.6.1 is available in a third-party ppa for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Linux Mint 17.1.
Open terminal from the Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway

Then run below commands one by one to install Entangle. Or you can upgrade it through Software Updater if you’ve an old version installed.

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install entangle

For photographers, there are more useful tools available in this PPA.