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How to install Canon G9 software on ubuntu

Asked by Pat Stapleton

I'm a photo geek who used Windows until last week when my year-and-a-half old HP low platform machine burned. Blah! Sputter, sputt-t-t-e-e-r! Now I have a bad taste on the whole computer experience. And Vista's constant nagging. It's like putting my money out in the yard and letting the wind blow it away. (If it wasn't for taking photos I would quit computers. I've got more done in the past week than the past month!) Anyway -- I'm trying to load software from my Canon G9 using Ubuntu 8 so I can process RAW files. Or is there something comparable in Ubuntu that will work?

I put the Canon 32.1 Solution disk in and dragged off the setup and software files but an X is beside them. I can't open them and I can't delete them. I then tried to use the steps in Launchpad, but after System, Software Sources and trying to add the CD in the third-party software tab it comes up "Error scanning the CD. Failed to mount the cdrom" -- Help!

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Thomas Kluyver (takluyver) said : 		#1

Hi Pat

I don't know about Canon specifically, but it may well be that they don't provide software for Linux. If they do, look for the instructions in the manual.

If not, there are equivalent programs--F-spot and Digikam are two of the big names, and can be installed from Synaptic (or any package manager) in the usual way.

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Best Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#2

Hi Pat,

Please follow these instructions:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/canon-g9-digikam-629141/

Regards,

Mark

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Pat Stapleton (makeitso1) said : 		#3

Thanks,Thomas,for taking time to answer my question. I appreciate it,
but I think it's going to take some time before I understand your
answer.

Seems there are lines of text to be entered somewhere. I suppose I'm
too used to having Windows do stuff for me. I looked around F-spot a
bit and did a search in Help on RAW. I did minor research on Digikam.
Seems complicated to download to get the latest version. Time is a
valuable commodity and it is elusive. I'll have to work on this when
there is more of it. I suppose the world won't stop if I have to shoot
in JPEG.

Pat

Thanks,
Pat
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 19:37 +0000, Thomas K wrote:
> Your question #46693 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/46693
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Thomas K proposed the following answer:
> Hi Pat
>
> I don't know about Canon specifically, but it may well be that they
> don't provide software for Linux. If they do, look for the instructions
> in the manual.
>
> If not, there are equivalent programs--F-spot and Digikam are two of the
> big names, and can be installed from Synaptic (or any package manager)
> in the usual way.
>

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Pat Stapleton (makeitso1) said : 		#4

Thanks,Mark,for taking time to answer my question. I appreciate it,
but I think it's going to take some time before I understand your
answer.

Seems there are lines of text to be entered somewhere. I suppose I'm
too used to having Windows do stuff for me. I looked around F-spot a
bit and did a search in Help on RAW. I did minor research on Digikam.
Seems complicated to download to get the latest version. Time is a
valuable commodity and it is elusive. I'll have to work on this when
there is more of it. I suppose the world won't stop if I have to shoot
in JPEG.

Pat

On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 20:39 +0000, Mark Rijckenberg wrote:
> Your question #46693 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/46693
>
> Mark Rijckenberg proposed the following answer:
> Hi Pat,
>
> Please follow these instructions:
>
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-
> hardware-18/canon-g9-digikam-629141/
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>

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Pat Stapleton (makeitso1) said : 		#5

Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.