How To Install shotwell-dbg on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install shotwell-dbg on Debian 9.
What is shotwell-dbg
shotwell-dbg is:
Shotwell is a digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos, pictures, images and videos from disk or camera. Shotwell can organize them in collections and in other various ways. The viewer shows them in full-window or fullscreen mode and presents them as galleries or slideshows. The integrated editor can rotate, flip, crop and tag the photos, adjust the colors und remove red eyes. Export is possible to facebook, Flickr or Youtube to share with others. It is able to manage a lot of image formats such as JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF and Raw CR2.
This package contains the debugging symbols for Shotwell.
There are three methods to install shotwell-dbg on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install shotwell-dbg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install shotwell-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install shotwell-dbg
Install shotwell-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install shotwell-dbg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install shotwell-dbg
Install shotwell-dbg 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 shotwell-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install shotwell-dbg
How To Uninstall shotwell-dbg on Debian 9
To uninstall only the shotwell-dbg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove shotwell-dbg
Uninstall shotwell-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall shotwell-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove shotwell-dbg
Remove shotwell-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove shotwell-dbg configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge shotwell-dbg
Remove shotwell-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove shotwell-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge shotwell-dbg
Dependencies
shotwell-dbg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install shotwell-dbg package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
