I went to this page and downloaded the file, put it on my desktop, then typed the instructions into Terminal, but Terminal couldn't find the file
http://registry.gimp.org/node/8839
I went to this page and downloaded the file, put it on my desktop, then typed the instructions into Terminal, but Terminal couldn't find the file
http://registry.gimp.org/node/8839
Did you remember to change to the the Desktop directory in the terminal first?
Code:cd ~/Desktop
I tried "cd ~/desktop" and then follow the steps at th webpage http://registry.gimp.org/node/8839
No luck yet.
Maybe I can find an exif reader in the software center
Please post the EXACT commands you are typing and the EXACT error messages (no paraphrasing) - you can copy from the terminal by selecting using the mouse and then pressing Ctrl-Shift-C
Linux is case sensitive so cd ~/desktop is NOT the same as cd ~/Desktop
I moved exif-browser.tar.gz from download folder to the desktop then typed this in terminal and this is what happens:
michael@michael-HP-Compaq-dc5800-Small-Form-Factor:~$ cd ~/Desktop
michael@michael-HP-Compaq-dc5800-Small-Form-Factor:~/Desktop$ gunzip exif-browser.tar.gz
michael@michael-HP-Compaq-dc5800-Small-Form-Factor:~/Desktop$ tar xcf exif-browser.tar
tar: You may not specify more than one `-Acdtrux' or `--test-label' option
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
michael@michael-HP-Compaq-dc5800-Small-Form-Factor:~/Desktop$
Try
or justCode:tar xvf exif-browser.tar
if you don't want a verbose listing of the archive contents ('c' is for creating archives, not extracting them - the error message is telling you that you can't create and extract an archive at the same time)Code:tar xf exif-browser.tar
FYI modern versions of tar are smart enough to gunzip automatically so you could have skipped a step and just done
Code:tar xvf exif-browser.tar.gz
Most image browsers will display EXIFs. Among the ones I use (KDE desktop): Gwenview and Digikam, but I am fairly sure that their Gnome counterparts will also do it. For the command line, you can also use ExifTool. Using Gimp just to see EXIFs if a bit of overkill.
Last edited by ofnuts; January 8th, 2014 at 10:12 PM.
Warning: unless noted otherwise, code in my posts should be understood as "coding suggestions", and its use may require more neurones than the two necessary for Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V.
There is lots of metadata work going on in GIMP at the moment.
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp.../msg00225.html
Why not just double click the downloaded file? The archive manager will open, then click "Extract".
That must be quicker than typing a command, surely?
Look for your file in either ~/Desktop or ~/Downloads.
The command is 'tar zxf your_file.tar.gz'.
GIMP is really not the tool you want for just viewing metadata. Aforementioned digiKam and Gwenview are the kind of tools that would work better. In GNOME and that Ubuntu thing you can also use EoG, or Eye of GNOME: press Alt+Enter to view properties.
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