Information on how it can be done is posted in that thread.
Quoted from solara:
\"Okay I finally got it to work. Here are the steps in case someone else wants to get their shutter actuations without having to learn too much about Linux.
2- Burn the ISO image to a CD (you can install to your hard drive after booting from the Ubuntu CD), or make a bootable USB drive like I did for faster boot-up times. I created the bootable USB drive using Universal USB Installer: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/univers...easy-as-1-2-3/
Note that the Universal USB Installer has an option to create a Persistence file. This enables any changes/programs you make to the Ubuntu environment to persist after a reboot. Otherwise, any programs you install (gphoto2, etc.) will disappear after rebooting the USB drive (like booting from the CD as well). I actually tried to create a Persistence file but for some reason Ubuntu wouldn\'t completely load up for me ... that\'s a problem for another day.
3- Download the following .DEV files (basically Ubuntu installation files): libexif-gtk5 and gtkam. GTKAM is the graphical user interface for libgphoto, and gphoto2 is the commandline version.
Once you\'ve booted into Ubuntu, open up a file manager (just double-click on one of the drive icons on the Ubuntu desktop) and navigate to the drive where you\'ve downloaded those two .dev files and double-click on them. This will launch Ubuntu Software Center and you can then install them (libexif-gtk5 first, and then gtkam).
And that\'s it. You actually don\'t have to install gphoto2 for gtkam to work (and the core files libgphoto2 are already a part of the Ubuntu 10.10 package - though it\'s an older version). Plug in your camera to the USB port, then unmount it (there\'s a button for that command on the pop-up window that will appear when you plug in the camera). Launch gtkam (it\'s under Applications > Graphics on the pull-down menu), scan for your camera if it doesn\'t appear automatically, and right click on it and choose \'View Camera Preferences\'.
If you want the latest gphoto2 and libgphoto2, you can download the respective .dev files from the same ubuntu site I listed above (I used all the Natty versions). Note that you will also need to download libcdk5.dev for gphoto2 to install, and libgphoto2 requires libgphoto2-port0.dev and libjpeg62.dev.
So coming from a Windows background, I found using .DEV files the easiest way to install these programs in Ubuntu.\"
