EOS utility for Linux?

There was another thread about the utility on Mac, made me think about my Linux machine. Is there a utility for us open-source fellows (I have Ubuntu)? I did manage to find something called Multican, but haven't managed to get it working just yet. I'm pretty new to Linux still.

Check out gphoto -> http://gphoto.sourcefo​rge.net/

It's command line driven (or was -- haven't used it in a while) but works well.

Read the comments from this blog that I had saved to my favorites - it helped me get it going.

http://kstars.wordpres​s.com …eos-400d-and-linux-expt1/

Got rid of a lot of these headaches on my Mac by running a Windows virtual machine...the best Windows box I've ever had is the VM on my iMac. Linux can do the same thing.

If you do go that way, I use VirtualBox on both my work and home linux boxes, it's good, free virtual software.

It may run on wine, but I haven't tried:

http://www.winehq.org/

+1 for VirtualBox. Use it on my Linux box at work. I'm using VMWare Fusion on the iMac at home.

New to Linux machines. Just picked up an Eee PC. Trying to figure out a way to view photograph properties (ISO, shutter, appeture, etc.) on the Linux system. I have a Canon 20D. Will VirtualBox allow me to do that? Just downloaded VirtualBox to my Windows XP desktop and couldn't figure it out. Does VirtualBox allow me to view photograph properteries or is there another program that would be better suited for this? Thanks.

seewhite1 wrote in post #7426141
New to Linux machines. Just picked up an Eee PC. Trying to figure out a way to view photograph properties (ISO, shutter, appeture, etc.) on the Linux system. I have a Canon 20D. Will VirtualBox allow me to do that? Just downloaded VirtualBox to my Windows XP desktop and couldn't figure it out. Does VirtualBox allow me to view photograph properteries or is there another program that would be better suited for this? Thanks.

VirtualBox is not a photo app. VirtualBox is a virtualization app...allows you to run Linux within your Windows system, for example. You can read a little more about virtualization at http://www.virtualbox.​org/wiki/Virtualizatio​n.

To seewhite1:

As fteter said, VirtualBox is for virtualization (aka running linux in windows or as most linuxers to, run windows inside our linux boxes so we can use various windows programs). So thats not what you'd be looking for.

Picasa from google is a good, lightweight photo organizer and it also allows you do minor photo editing as well (you'll also see the exif information aka ISO, shutter speed, etc...). There is a windows and linux install so you can use it on whatever box you have.

fteters & mowcows,
thanks for the explanations of virtualbox and letting me hijack your thread.

picasa is the type of software that i'm looking for. i want to upload some type of software that will allow me to see the picture's exif information. i'll give it a try.

You should read this sticky: https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=526570

It'll tell you everything you need to know to get started with digital photography on Linux.

There's no version of Canon EOS utilities for Linux, but there's a lot a very capable applications to manage your workflow. Most of them are free and open source.

And forget about what other people said: you're not using Linux to run Windows on top of it all the time, right?

cedm wrote in post #7485433
You should read this sticky: https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=526570

And forget about what other people said: you're not using Linux to run Windows on top of it all the time, right?

Geez, does anybody even think about doing that???

gphoto2 is a command line interface for libgphoto2. For a more intuitive tool, try gtkam, the GUI interface to the same library.
http://www.gphoto.org/​proj/

Just type:
sudo apt-get install gtkam