How To Install ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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. Build-Ids: a432266ea205f639035cadbb9ef83b3eb918662c ecc8aff864cdd2557cd0e9bfc7af2c81b71b212c
There are three methods to install ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ffmpegthumbnailer-dbg
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.