How To Install tumbler on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install tumbler on Rocky Linux 8. tumbler is D-Bus service for applications to request thumbnails

Introduction

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

What is `tumbler`

Tumbler is a D-Bus service for applications to request thumbnails for various URI schemes and MIME types. It is an implementation of the thumbnail management D-Bus specification described on http Additional thumbnailers can be found in the tumbler-extras package

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

Install tumbler 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 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tumbler

Install tumbler 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 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tumbler

How To Uninstall tumbler on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove tumbler

tumbler Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/xdg/tumbler
/etc/xdg/tumbler/tumbler.rc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/0bbffce85d0e10f1210fa6e8458300005df9bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/6a2053dd080dac77ffb8ac7527dbe287ea229d
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/85a7253aa89e998ad28920e62ff31ffe324abc
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/1f9640f1f568fe448fd915eb9a1f59544cc76b
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/91e7415e2fd0d2a04e7a268f6b6640ceed7e93
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2/57f61380a5a5d2114dbcba517bc95bb36253ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9/7572a389d0a3f4a80384f3742fc4bb7310d10d
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5/4490fae152288ee46f26e2ca62a2f027f32dec
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/62368bea90522870dd75790cd7fdec7f073507
/usr/lib64/libtumbler-1.so.0
/usr/lib64/libtumbler-1.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/tumbler-1
/usr/lib64/tumbler-1/plugins
/usr/lib64/tumbler-1/plugins/cache
/usr/lib64/tumbler-1/plugins/cache/tumbler-cache-plugin.so
/usr/lib64/tumbler-1/plugins/cache/tumbler-xdg-cache.so
/usr/lib64/tumbler-1/plugins/tumbler-desktop-thumbnailer.so
/usr/lib64/tumbler-1/plugins/tumbler-font-thumbnailer.so
/usr/lib64/tumbler-1/plugins/tumbler-jpeg-thumbnailer.so
/usr/lib64/tumbler-1/plugins/tumbler-pixbuf-thumbnailer.so
/usr/lib64/tumbler-1/plugins/tumbler-poppler-thumbnailer.so
/usr/lib64/tumbler-1/tumblerd
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.Tumbler.Cache1.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.Tumbler.Manager1.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.Tumbler.Thumbnailer1.service
/usr/share/doc/tumbler
/usr/share/doc/tumbler/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/tumbler/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/tumbler/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/tumbler/README
/usr/share/doc/tumbler/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/tumbler
/usr/share/licenses/tumbler/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy_AM/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/tumbler.mo

References

tumbler website

Summary

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