How To Install shotwell-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install shotwell-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is shotwell-common
shotwell-common is:
Shotwell is a digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos, pictures, images and videos from disk or camera. Shotwell can organize them in collections and in other various ways. The viewer shows them in full-window or fullscreen mode and presents them as galleries or slideshows. The integrated editor can rotate, flip, crop and tag the photos, adjust the colors und remove red eyes. Export is possible to facebook, Flickr or Youtube to share with others. It is able to manage a lot of image formats such as JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF and Raw CR2.
This package provides image files and documentation for Shotwell.
There are three methods to install shotwell-common on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install shotwell-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install shotwell-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install shotwell-common
Install shotwell-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install shotwell-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install shotwell-common
Install shotwell-common 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install shotwell-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install shotwell-common
How To Uninstall shotwell-common on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the shotwell-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove shotwell-common
Uninstall shotwell-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall shotwell-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove shotwell-common
Remove shotwell-common Configurations and Data
To remove shotwell-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge shotwell-common
Remove shotwell-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove shotwell-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge shotwell-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install shotwell-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
