How To Install kphotoalbum on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kphotoalbum on Debian 9.
What is kphotoalbum
kphotoalbum is:
KPhotoAlbum lets you index, search, group and view images by keywords, date, locations and persons. It provides a quick and elegant way to lookup groups of images when you have thousands of pictures on your hard disk.
The information associated with each photo is stored in an XML file. Together with its keywords, KPhotoAlbum stores each picture’s MD5 sum, so it will recognize them even if you move them to another directory. KPhotoAlbum can also create HTML galleries with the images you select.
KPhotoAlbum can also make use of the KIPI image handling plugins to extend its capabilities. The kipi-plugins package contains many useful extensions. Among others, it contains extensions for photo manipulation, importing, exporting and batch processing.
There are three methods to install kphotoalbum on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install kphotoalbum Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kphotoalbum using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kphotoalbum
Install kphotoalbum Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kphotoalbum using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kphotoalbum
Install kphotoalbum 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 kphotoalbum using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kphotoalbum
How To Uninstall kphotoalbum on Debian 9
To uninstall only the kphotoalbum package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kphotoalbum
Uninstall kphotoalbum And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kphotoalbum and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kphotoalbum
Remove kphotoalbum Configurations and Data
To remove kphotoalbum configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kphotoalbum
Remove kphotoalbum configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kphotoalbum configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kphotoalbum
Dependencies
kphotoalbum have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kphotoalbum package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.