How To Install ffmpegthumbnailer on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ffmpegthumbnailer on Kali Linux.

What is ffmpegthumbnailer

ffmpegthumbnailer 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 ffmpegthumbnailer executable.

There are three methods to install ffmpegthumbnailer on Kali Linux. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ffmpegthumbnailer

Install ffmpegthumbnailer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ffmpegthumbnailer

Install ffmpegthumbnailer Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install ffmpegthumbnailer

How To Uninstall ffmpegthumbnailer on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ffmpegthumbnailer

Uninstall ffmpegthumbnailer And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ffmpegthumbnailer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ffmpegthumbnailer

Remove ffmpegthumbnailer Configurations and Data

To remove ffmpegthumbnailer configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ffmpegthumbnailer

Remove ffmpegthumbnailer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ffmpegthumbnailer

Dependencies

ffmpegthumbnailer have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libffmpegthumbnailer4v5
• libgcc1

References

• ffmpegthumbnailer website

Summary

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