How To Install libethumb-client-bin on Debian 10

Learn how to install libethumb-client-bin on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libethumb-client-bin is EFL ethumb helper binary

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libethumb-client-bin on Debian 10.

What is libethumb-client-bin

libethumb-client-bin is:

Ethumb uses Evas to generate thumbnail images of given files. The API allows great customization of the generated files and also helps complying to FreeDesktop.Org Thumbnail Specification.

It also provide a D-Bus server to reduce the performance costs of thumbnail generation and management. Ethumb-Client creates thumbnails by communicating with a thumbnail generation server using standard D-Bus protocol.

This is part of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL).

This package provides the ethumbd helper binary and the associated D-Bus service file that are internally used by libethumb-client.

There are three methods to install libethumb-client-bin 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 libethumb-client-bin Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libethumb-client-bin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libethumb-client-bin

Install libethumb-client-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libethumb-client-bin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libethumb-client-bin

Install libethumb-client-bin 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 libethumb-client-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libethumb-client-bin

How To Uninstall libethumb-client-bin on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libethumb-client-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libethumb-client-bin

Uninstall libethumb-client-bin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libethumb-client-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libethumb-client-bin

Remove libethumb-client-bin Configurations and Data

To remove libethumb-client-bin configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libethumb-client-bin

Remove libethumb-client-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libethumb-client-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libethumb-client-bin

Dependencies

libethumb-client-bin have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libethumb-client-bin package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.