How To Install games-thumbnails on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install games-thumbnails on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is games-thumbnails
games-thumbnails is:
This package contains thumbnails of different games in Debian. The images intend to show something visually representative from the game, and are derived from real screenshots. They are stored in .png and .jpg graphic formats with a 320x240 pixels resolution.
There are three methods to install games-thumbnails 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 games-thumbnails Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install games-thumbnails using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install games-thumbnails
Install games-thumbnails Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install games-thumbnails using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install games-thumbnails
Install games-thumbnails 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 games-thumbnails using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install games-thumbnails
How To Uninstall games-thumbnails on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the games-thumbnails package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove games-thumbnails
Uninstall games-thumbnails And Its Dependencies
To uninstall games-thumbnails and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove games-thumbnails
Remove games-thumbnails Configurations and Data
To remove games-thumbnails configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge games-thumbnails
Remove games-thumbnails configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove games-thumbnails configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge games-thumbnails
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install games-thumbnails package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
