How To Install libethumb1 on Debian 12

Learn how to install libethumb1 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libethumb1 is EFL for thumbnail image creation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libethumb1 on Debian 12.

What is libethumb1

libethumb1 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 contains the D-Bus server library.

There are three methods to install libethumb1 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libethumb1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libethumb1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libethumb1

Install libethumb1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libethumb1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libethumb1

Install libethumb1 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 libethumb1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libethumb1

How To Uninstall libethumb1 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libethumb1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libethumb1

Uninstall libethumb1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libethumb1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libethumb1

Remove libethumb1 Configurations and Data

To remove libethumb1 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libethumb1

Remove libethumb1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libethumb1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libethumb1

Dependencies

libethumb1 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libethumb1 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.