How To Install libffmpegthumbnailer-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libffmpegthumbnailer-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libffmpegthumbnailer-dev is development files for ffmpegthumbnailer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libffmpegthumbnailer-dev on Debian 12.

What is libffmpegthumbnailer-dev

libffmpegthumbnailer-dev is:

FFmpegthumbnailer is a lightweight video thumbnailer that can be used by file managers to create thumbnails for your video files. The thumbnailer uses ffmpeg to decode frames from the video files, so supported videoformats depend on the configuration flags of ffmpeg.

This package contains the development files distributed with ffmpegthumbnailer.

There are three methods to install libffmpegthumbnailer-dev on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libffmpegthumbnailer-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libffmpegthumbnailer-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libffmpegthumbnailer-dev

Install libffmpegthumbnailer-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libffmpegthumbnailer-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libffmpegthumbnailer-dev

Install libffmpegthumbnailer-dev Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libffmpegthumbnailer-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libffmpegthumbnailer-dev

How To Uninstall libffmpegthumbnailer-dev on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libffmpegthumbnailer-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libffmpegthumbnailer-dev

Uninstall libffmpegthumbnailer-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libffmpegthumbnailer-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libffmpegthumbnailer-dev

Remove libffmpegthumbnailer-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libffmpegthumbnailer-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libffmpegthumbnailer-dev

Remove libffmpegthumbnailer-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libffmpegthumbnailer-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libffmpegthumbnailer-dev

Dependencies

libffmpegthumbnailer-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libffmpegthumbnailer-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.