How To Install cthumb on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cthumb on Debian 9.
What is cthumb
cthumb is:
cthumb allows you to create themable web picture albums, i.e. collections of digital pictures, with small thumbnails of your pictures and with captions. In addition, it optionally allows you to have several views of the collection of pictures. An album is composed of a series of pages, each composed of a collection of pictures. For each page (and each picture), you can have several annotations per picture. cthumb will generate several versions of the page, for each annotation type.
You can customize almost everything in the way the albums look on the screen, from the size of the thumbnails to the background and foreground colors, the border colors, whether you want film-strips, etc.
There are three methods to install cthumb 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 cthumb Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cthumb using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cthumb
Install cthumb Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cthumb using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cthumb
Install cthumb 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 cthumb using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cthumb
How To Uninstall cthumb on Debian 9
To uninstall only the cthumb package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cthumb
Uninstall cthumb And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cthumb and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cthumb
Remove cthumb Configurations and Data
To remove cthumb configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cthumb
Remove cthumb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cthumb configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cthumb
Dependencies
cthumb have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cthumb package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.