It goes way beyond basic utils like imagemagick and the
compiz-screenshot plugin. Copy to clipboard, configure output format,
bounded box capturing… nice stuff.
Why do I mention it here? Erm… because it’s only packaged for DEB,
and unfortunately the dependencies in this sucker aren’t exactly easy
for a linux beginner like me. I’m hoping some other more clever &
charitable soul will take a look and give me some points for actually
getting this package running on OSuse
riddil wrote:
> Just thought I’d share a fancy screenshot utility, Gscrot:
> https://launchpad.net/gscrot
>
> It goes way beyond basic utils like imagemagick and the
> compiz-screenshot plugin. Copy to clipboard, configure output format,
> bounded box capturing… nice stuff.
>
> Why do I mention it here? Erm… because it’s only packaged for DEB,
> and unfortunately the dependencies in this sucker aren’t exactly easy
> for a linux beginner like me. I’m hoping some other more clever &
> charitable soul will take a look and give me some points for actually
> getting this package running on OSuse
Go into YaST, Software Management and add the perl modules. You may
have to experiment a bit as the names may not match exactly, but usually
it’s not too hard. For instance, searching for libwww-perl turns up the
package perl-libwww-perl, libgtk2-perl turns up as perl-Gtk2,
libglib-perl is perl-Glib, etc.
Thanks for the tips, Kevin. Actually I’ve already given it a shot. Doing
it the way you recommend normally has worked for me in the past. But
this one seems extra-special convoluted.
I sorted out 90% of the dependencies. But when trying to get Gscrot
running I still found some modules weren’t found. I eventually resorted
to searching around on rpm.pbone.net to try to find which RPM packages
had the modules I was searching for. I ended up adding some fairly
remote repositories, including an opensuse 10.3 repo, even though I’m
running 11.1 RC-1. I pulled a few Mandrake RPMs to get some modules I
couldn’t find… still bust.
This one has me shaking my screen in frustration. Sadly, I think this
one is beyond me.
