How to install flameshot version 9 or above on 20.04 LTS?

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.03 LTS focal fossa.

Recently, I heard of a screen capturing tool known as Flameshot. I installed it on my system using:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install flameshot

The installation went well and I was able to use flameshot. However, in the GIF on the official GitHub page they have shown many features, such as numbers, margins etc...

But I am unable to use the "numbering feature" and a few more features. It seems like the version available in the focal repositories is pretty old and does not seem to have these features.

Is there any way I can get these features in Ubuntu 20.04 focal?

2 Answers

In 2022 we can avoid compilation by using Flatpak or Snap versions of Flameshot:

• Flatpak

  sudo apt install flatpak
  flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub
  flatpak install flathub org.flameshot.Flameshot

• Snap

  sudo snap install flameshot

Appimage and .deb installers of the latest version are available at GitHub releases.

Apparently, you can compile the newer version of the package from source or install using Flatpak using the other answer

For compiling:

1. Satisfy Dependencies

   You need the following dependencies:

   Depends: libqt5svg5, libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2), libqt5dbus5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.10.0) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.10.0), libqt5network5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.11.0~rc1), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)

   Also, install the suggested packages:

   Suggests: git, ca-certificates, openssl

   You also need the following packages to compile:

   g++ cmake build-essential qt5-default qttools5-dev-tools libqt5svg5-dev qttools5-dev

   So, simply run the following commands in a terminal:

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install g++ cmake build-essential qt5-default qttools5-dev-tools libqt5svg5-dev qttools5-dev
   sudo apt install libqt5dbus5 libqt5network5 libqt5core5a libqt5widgets5 libqt5gui5 libqt5svg5
   sudo apt install git openssl ca-certificates

2. Get Source Code

   Get the source code of the package by cloning the GitHub repository:

   cd ~/Downloads
   git clone 

   Change the working directory to flameshot:

   cd ~/Downloads/flameshot

3. Building

   Run the following commands to create a building environment:

   mkdir build
   cd build
   cmake ../

   Now run the make command with sudo privileges and get ready for the installation:

   sudo make

4. Install

   N.B: It is really HARD to uninstall this installation. Only proceed if you want to install flameshot and are not planning to remove it in future

   Finally, run:

   sudo make install

Now you can see that the latest version is installed!