How To Install Curtail on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Curtail on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Curtail is a free and open-source image compressor software for Linux. With Curtail we will be able to compress JPEG and PNG files using lossy or lossless compression. The application is simple and easy to use just drag and drop your image in the application and it automatically compresses it. Using this you can also remove file metadata, dark theme support and Progressive encode JPG support.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Curtail free and open-source image compression on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Ubuntu 22.04, 20.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint.
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install Curtail on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish

Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running the following apt commands in the terminal.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install software-properties-common apt-transport-https wget ca-certificates gnupg2 ubuntu-keyring

Step 2. Installing Curtail on Ubuntu 22.04.

By default, Curtail is available on Ubuntu 22.04 base repository. Now run the following command below to add the Curtail  repository to your Ubuntu system:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apandada1/curtail

Then, install the latest version of Curtail using the below command:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install curtail

Step 3. Accessing Curtail on Ubuntu 22.04.

Once successfully installed on your Ubuntu system, run the following path on your desktop to open the path: Activities -> Show Applications -> Curtail or launching it through the terminal with the command shown below:

curtail

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Curtail. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing the Curtail image compression application on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official Curtail website.