How To Install qiv on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qiv on Debian 9.
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 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 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 9
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 9, 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 9 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
- libcairo2
- libexif12
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libimlib2
- libjpeg62-turbo
- liblcms2-2
- libmagic1
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libtiff5
- libx11-6
- libxext6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qiv package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.