The legacy version of Rapid Photo Downloader is 0.4.11. The instructions here refer to that legacy version. The instructions on the most recent version are found here.

If you use Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, Gentoo and Foresight Linux, please view these installation instructions. If you want to manually install, keep reading.

Your Linux distribution very likely has packages that you can use to easily satisfy these installation requirements:

• 1Python 2.7
• 2Pyexiv2 0.3.0 or higher
• 3python-gnome2 2.28 or higher
• 4python-gtk2 2.17 or higher
• 5python-gconf 2.28 or higher
• 6python-notify 0.1.1 or higher
• 7python-imaging 1.1.7 or higher
• 8librsvg2-common 2.26 or higher
• 9 ExifTool - the package name might be perl-Image-ExifTool (Fedora) or libimage-exiftool-perl (Debian / Ubuntu)
• 10 Exiftran

Ensure these are installed before you install Rapid Photo Downloader. It will not run without them.

• 1hachoir metadata
• 2kaa metadata
• 3ffmpegthumbnailer

These packages are optional in the sense that the program will run without them. However, without hachoir metadata and kaa metadata it won't be able to download videos. You can easily install them both from your distribution's package repositories. ffmpegthumbnailer is used to attempt to extract a thumbnail from videos. Although ffmpegthumbnailer is optional, video thumbnails are a useful feature, and if you can install it, it is recommended.

• 1Download the latest version of Rapid Photo Downloader
• 2open a terminal window and change directory to where you saved the downloaded file
• 3extract the files from the archive:
  tar -zxf rapid-photo-downloader-0.4.11.tar.gz
• 4change directory into the folder just created:
  cd rapid-photo-downloader-0.4.11
• 5as the root or super user, run the python setup script e.g.:
  python setup.py install
• 6a menu entry for the program should be automatically created