In this tutorial, we will be looking at how to install Screensy on Alpine Linux Latest. Screensy is an open-source tool used for creating screenshots on Linux systems. Screensy helps in capturing screenshots, annotating, editing, and sharing them. Screensy is a GUI-based tool and also works through terminal.
Before we begin, ensure you have the following:
The first step is to install the dependencies required for Screensy. We can install these dependencies by running the following command:
sudo apk add libqalculate-dev libqalculate-doc libqalculate-libs libqalculate0-dev libqalculate0 libqalculate-ui-qt5 libqalculate-ui-qt6 libqpdf-dev libqpdf21-dev libqpdf21
After installing the dependencies, we need to install the required packages. We can install the packages by running the following command:
sudo apk add git qt5-qtbase-dev qt6-qtbase-dev qt5-qttools-dev qt6-qttools-dev cmake make gcc g++ libxi-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libx11-dev libfontconfig-dev libfreetype-dev
We need to clone the Screensy repository from GitHub. We can clone it by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/screensy/screensy.git
After cloning the repository, we need to build and install Screensy. We can do that by running the following commands:
cd screensy/
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. && make && sudo make install
After installing Screensy, we can test if Screensy is working by running the screensy command in the terminal. Screensy should now launch, and you can start taking screenshots.
In this tutorial, we have installed Screensy on Alpine Linux Latest. Screensy is an excellent tool for taking screenshots and annotating them. You can now take screenshots using Screensy and edit, annotate and share them.
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