EXIF data in Gimp

[michael-piziak]

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

[steeldriver]

Did you remember to change to the the Desktop directory in the terminal first?

cd ~/Desktop

[michael-piziak]

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

[steeldriver]

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

[michael-piziak]

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$

[steeldriver]

Try

tar xvf exif-browser.tar

or just

tar xf 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)

FYI modern versions of tar are smart enough to gunzip automatically so you could have skipped a step and just done

tar xvf exif-browser.tar.gz

[ofnuts]

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.

[ssam]

There is lots of metadata work going on in GIMP at the moment.
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp.../msg00225.html

[coldraven]

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?

[prokodine]

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.