How To Install ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg on Debian 10

Learn how to install ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg on Debian 10 with this tutorial. ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg is debugging information for ffmpegthumbnailer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg on Debian 10.

What is ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg

ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg 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 debugging symbols for ffmpegthumbnailer.

There are three methods to install ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ffmpegthumbnailer-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 ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg

Install ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg

Install ffmpegthumbnailer-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 ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg

How To Uninstall ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg on Debian 10

To uninstall only the ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg

Uninstall ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg

Remove ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg Configurations and Data

To remove ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg

Remove ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg

Dependencies

ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.