How To Install tumbler on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install tumbler on CentOS 7. tumbler is D-Bus service for applications to request thumbnails

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tumbler on CentOS 7.

What is tumbler

Tumbler is a D-Bus service for applications to request thumbnails for various URI schemes and MIME types. It is an implementation of the thumbnail management D-Bus specification described on http object-oriented fashion Additional thumbnailers can be found in the tumbler-extras package

We can use yum or dnf to install tumbler on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tumbler.

Install tumbler on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install tumbler using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tumbler

Install tumbler on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install tumbler using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tumbler

How To Uninstall tumbler on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the tumbler package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove tumbler

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tumbler on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.