How To Install photon on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install photon on Debian 9.
What is photon
photon is:
A Python based photo album generator with a clean design that is run from the command line. HTML output can be configured via templates.
Features:
- generates static HTML pages
- slideshow (use of javascript is optional)
- can use gimp to resize picture
- keyboard navigation between images
- works in any browser (Mozilla, Netscape Navigator 4.x, Konqueror, Opera)
- each image can have a comment (with HTML tags)
- image information (if taken from a digital picture) can be displayed
- thumbnail image size can be selected by the user
- output images can be scaled down
- control over the number of thumbnails in a page
There are three methods to install photon 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 photon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install photon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install photon
Install photon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install photon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install photon
Install photon 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 photon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install photon
How To Uninstall photon on Debian 9
To uninstall only the photon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove photon
Uninstall photon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall photon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove photon
Remove photon Configurations and Data
To remove photon configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge photon
Remove photon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove photon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge photon
Dependencies
photon have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install photon package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.