How To Install qiv on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qiv
on Debian 11.
What is qiv
qiv is:
Quick Image Viewer (qiv) is a very small and pretty fast GDK/Imlib image viewer. Features include zoom, maxpect, scale down, fullscreen, brightness/contrast/gamma correction, slideshow, pan with keyboard and mouse, rotate left/right, flip, delete (move to .qiv-trash/), jump to image x, jump forward/backward x images, filename filter, and you can use qiv to set your X11-Desktop background.
qiv also supports the assignment of external commands (like metacam) to unused keys.
There are three methods to install qiv
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install qiv Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install qiv
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install qiv
Install qiv Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install qiv
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install qiv
Install qiv 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 qiv
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install qiv
How To Uninstall qiv on Debian 11
To uninstall only the qiv
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove qiv
Uninstall qiv And Its Dependencies
To uninstall qiv
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove qiv
Remove qiv Configurations and Data
To remove qiv
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge qiv
Remove qiv configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove qiv
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qiv
Dependencies
qiv have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libexif12
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libimlib2
- libjpeg62-turbo
- liblcms2-2
- libmagic1
- libpango-1.0-0
- libtiff5
- libx11-6
- libxext6
- libwmf0.2-7-gtk
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qiv
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.