How To Install ffmpegthumbnailer on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ffmpegthumbnailer
on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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 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 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ffmpegthumbnailer
How To Uninstall ffmpegthumbnailer on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ffmpegthumbnailer
Remove ffmpegthumbnailer Configurations and Data
To remove ffmpegthumbnailer
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ffmpegthumbnailer
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.