lensfun

[bmike1]

How do I put the lensfun database on my system?

[JoeFootball]

How do I put the lensfun database on my system?

Sounds like you download it, then import the library with one of the supported applications.

How to use Lensfun?

Joe

[phd21]

Hi bmike1,

I just read your post and the good replies to it. Here are my thoughts on this as well.

It might be in the Linux Mint software repositories (Software Manager or Synaptic Package Manager (SPM)). I also noticed a "gimp-lensfun" in my "Synaptic Package Manager (SPM)" of Linux Mint 18.x.

If "lensfun" is not in the Mint Software Manager or Synaptic Package Manager (SPM), there is a PPA you can use which also has updated Darktable. I use this.
Darktable Releases : Pascal de Bruijn
https://launchpad.net/~pmjdebruijn/+arc ... le-release

To install this using the PPA method, open a console terminal, type in, or copy & paste, each line below one by one: Click "Select All" above command, right click the highlighted command, select Copy (or Ctrl+Insert), click in the console terminal window, and right click paste (or Shift+Insert or "Ctrl+Shift+v"), repeat for each command.

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmjdebruijn/darktable-release

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sudo apt-get update

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sudo apt install lensfun

Hope this helps ...

[bmike1]

thanks for trying.
E: Unable to locate package lensfun

[phd21]

Hi bmike1,

If you added that PPA, ran the update, you should be able to install "lensfun" from the "Synaptic Package Manager (SPM)" or from the console terminal. I thought it was installed as part of darktable. It seems to me that it would show up under "lens correction", but you need to have a camera attached to configure it (I think).

Console terminal command might have to run separate data first.

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sudo apt install liblensfun-data liblensfun0

And, in case you did not know, you can also download deb file(s) from most PPA's by going to their PPA launchpad website, click view details midway on the right, clicking the package for your installed system, Xenial = Linux Mint 18.x, Bionic = Linux Mint 19.x, scroll down to see the deb file(s).

For Linux Mint 18.x based on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial
If there is more than one deb file for a particular package, you may have to download and install them in some order.

64-bit
Lensfun data deb file
https://launchpad.net/~pmjdebruijn/+arc ... al_all.deb

Lensfun main deb file
https://launchpad.net/~pmjdebruijn/+arc ... _amd64.deb


Hope this helps ...
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Lensfun-Synaptic-LM19.jpg

[bmike1]

liblensfun0 is already the newest version (0.2.8-3pmjdebruijn3~xenial).
liblensfun-data is already the newest version (0.2.8-3pmjdebruijn3~xenial).
liblensfun-data set to manually installed.

so I got is all current. It is just that my lenses aren't in it. Bummer.

[phd21]

Hi bmike1,

I am glad you finally got it installed.

Unfortunately, I do not have a nice digital (DSLR) camera to test this with although I certainly would love one.

Here is more information on lensfun:

Apparently, they are up to this version: 2018-06-29 Alpha release 0.3.95
In my Ubuntu 18.04 you can see that 0.3.2 is already available.


Read this: Lensfun 0.3.2 on Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 | ValiDOMs Welt
http://validom.net/blog/2016/08/16/lens ... ial-16-04/
The above link is for Linux Mint 18.x based on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial, but the referenced PPA has deb files that could be installed in Linux Mint 19 as well. No need to compile source code because there is a PPA for Darktable and lensfun. I noticed a comment that said all they had to do to get Darktable working was to create a "symlink" to a file which is all that you may have to do with the currently installed LensFun packages.

Caution Note: When there is more than one PPA for a particular software or software packages there can be conflicts. You may have to disable any current PPA for that software or to remove it and the software before adding the other PPA and its software packages. You can disable (uncheck) a PPA through the "Software Sources" in the Mint Update Manager, "Synaptic Package Manager (SPM)", or there may be a menu option. You can remove a ppa through those options, or using the console terminal commands below:

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sudo apt install ppa-purge

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sudo ppa-purge <name of ppa>

How to Remove/Delete PPA on Ubuntu and its Derivatives - 2daygeek.com
https://www.2daygeek.com/how-to-remove- ... entary-os/

Info:
Lensfun
http://lensfun.sourceforge.net/

Lensfun
http://lensfun.sourceforge.net/lenslist/

Lens calibration for Lensfun
https://wilson.bronger.org/lens_calibration_tutorial/


lensfun/lensfun: This is NOT the official Lensfun repository but ONLY for the calibration team work!
https://github.com/lensfun/lensfun


Hope this helps ...