Is there a way to install Image viewer and converter XnViewMP (or Xnview and XnConverter) in Ubuntu 18.04 and later?
Other described ways (14.04, 16.04, 16.10) seem not to work for me.
3 Answers
- Download the
AppImage
file from the XnViewMP homepage. Give it execute permissions.
chmod +x XnView_MP.glibc2.17-x86_64.AppImage
Run it.
./XnView_MP.glibc2.17-x86_64.AppImage
To remove, delete the
AppImage
file and config folder at$HOME/.config/xnviewmp/
- Download and install the XnView MP deb file from the XnView Homepage. Although there were problems in Ubuntu 16.10, the newer versions (XnViewMP 0.9x) work fine in 18.04 and probably later. XnConvert also worked for me.
Update 19.04 and later (Thanks to Charles Green):
The XnViewMP .deb file does not install needed library libopenal1
.
To fix this open a terminal windows (e.g. ctrl+alt+t) and enter the command
sudo apt install libopenal1
Install it as **flatpak** from Flathub. Follow the instructions from flatpak.org including the Software Flatpak plugin to setup flatpak including flathub support. After a system restart, you can find XnView and XnConvert in the Software Center and install it from there.
XnViewMP is also available as a snap:
~$ snap search xnview Name Version Publisher Notes Summary xnviewmp 0.90-snap1 vs - XnView MP is the enhanced version of XnView Classic.
Install with
sudo snap install xnviewmp
Update June 2019: Obviously XnViewMP has been removed from the snap store (I don't know if temporary or permanently), so this will not work anymore, please use one of the suggestions in the other answers.