How To Install gpicview on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpicview on Debian 10.
What is gpicview
gpicview is:
GPicView is a lightweight GTK+ 2.x based image viewer with following features:
- Extremely lightweight and fast with low memory usage
- Very suitable for default image viewer of desktop system
- Simple and intuitive interface
- Minimal lib dependency: Only pure GTK+ is used
- Desktop independent: Doesn’t require any specific desktop environment
There are three methods to install gpicview 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 gpicview Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gpicview using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gpicview
Install gpicview Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gpicview using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gpicview
Install gpicview 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 gpicview using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gpicview
How To Uninstall gpicview on Debian 10
To uninstall only the gpicview package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gpicview
Uninstall gpicview And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gpicview and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gpicview
Remove gpicview Configurations and Data
To remove gpicview configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gpicview
Remove gpicview configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gpicview configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gpicview
Dependencies
gpicview have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libjpeg62-turbo
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libx11-6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpicview package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.