How To Install tracker-extract on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker-extract on Debian 12.
What is tracker-extract
tracker-extract is:
This package contains the metadata extractors.
Tracker is an advanced framework for first class objects with associated metadata and tags. It provides a one stop solution for all metadata, tags, shared object databases, search tools and indexing.
There are three methods to install tracker-extract 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 tracker-extract Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tracker-extract using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tracker-extract
Install tracker-extract Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tracker-extract using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tracker-extract
Install tracker-extract 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 tracker-extract using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tracker-extract
How To Uninstall tracker-extract on Debian 12
To uninstall only the tracker-extract package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tracker-extract
Uninstall tracker-extract And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tracker-extract and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tracker-extract
Remove tracker-extract Configurations and Data
To remove tracker-extract configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tracker-extract
Remove tracker-extract configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tracker-extract configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tracker-extract
Dependencies
tracker-extract have the following dependencies:
- libblkid1
- libc6
- libcue2
- libexempi8
- libexif12
- libgexiv2-2
- libgif7
- libglib2.0-0
- libgsf-1-114
- libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0
- libgstreamer1.0-0
- libgxps2
- libicu72
- libiptcdata0
- libjpeg62-turbo
- libnm0
- libosinfo-1.0-0
- libpng16-16
- libpoppler-glib8
- libseccomp2
- libtiff6
- libtotem-plparser18
- libtracker-sparql-3.0-0
- libxml2
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- init-system-helpers
- tracker
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker-extract package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
