In Ubuntu, at least in Intrepid, it is easy to open a USB camera like the Canon Powershot G2. You just plug it in and it mounts on the desktop, attractive icon and all. But I couldn’t delete photos from the DCIM card on the camera. [update – although a friend could delete files from his Powershot G10 which has a much smaller sized memory card). It said “Error while deleting” – There was an error deleting xxxxxxxx.jpg. And under Show more details was the terse message “Not supported” \ud83d\ude09 .<\/p>\n
Solution – install gphoto2 and gtkam via synaptic.<\/p>\n
GTKam is excellent (http:\/\/gphoto.sourceforge.net\/doc\/manual\/ref-gtkam.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n NB to make sure the camera isn’t mounted already (unmount it yourself if by right-clicking on the icon if it appears on your desktop) when connecting to the camera. And make sure the camera hasn’t timed out in the middle (which might confuse you).<\/p>\n One false lead was installing the Canon software e.g. Zoombrowser, under WINE. It worked to a point but … no USB support to enable me to connect to the camera! See http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=697238 <\/p>\n Anyway, I prefer GTKam.<\/p>\n Using gphoto2 from the terminal can help check some things out. See http:\/\/www.gphoto.org\/doc\/manual\/using-gphoto2.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n From the terminal you should be able to run: and get something like:<\/p>\n Model Port and as long as the camera isn’t already mounted, (and it hasn’t timed out!) the following should also work:<\/p>\n gphoto2 –list-files<\/p>\n e.g.<\/p>\n Detected a ‘Canon:PowerShot G2’. In Ubuntu, at least in Intrepid, it is easy to open a USB camera like the Canon Powershot G2. You just plug it in and it mounts on the desktop, attractive icon and all. But I couldn’t delete photos from … Continue reading
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\ngphoto2 --auto-detect<\/code><\/p>\n
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\nCanon PowerShot G2 usb: <\/p>\n
\nThere is no file in folder ‘\/’.
\nThere is no file in folder ‘\/DCIM’.
\nThere are 2 files in folder ‘\/DCIM\/101CANON’.
\n#1 IMG_0193.JPG rd 667 KB image\/jpeg
\n#2 IMG_0195.JPG rd 1288 KB image\/jpeg
\nThere are 15 files in folder ‘\/DCIM\/102CANON’.
\n#3 IMG_0218.JPG rd 1571 KB image\/jpeg
\netc etc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"