How To Install tumbler-extras on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install tumbler-extras on Rocky Linux 8. tumbler-extras is Additional thumbnailers for tumbler

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tumbler-extras on Rocky Linux 8.

What is tumbler-extras

This package contains additional thumbnailers for file types, which are not used very much and require additional libraries to be installed.

We can use yum or dnf to install tumbler-extras on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tumbler-extras.

Install tumbler-extras on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install tumbler-extras using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tumbler-extras

Install tumbler-extras on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install tumbler-extras using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tumbler-extras

How To Uninstall tumbler-extras on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the tumbler-extras package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove tumbler-extras

tumbler-extras Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5/4490fae152288ee46f26e2ca62a2f027f32dec
/usr/lib64/tumbler-1/plugins/tumbler-gst-thumbnailer.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tumbler-extras on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.