How To Install tumbler-common on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tumbler-common on Debian 9.
What is tumbler-common
tumbler-common is:
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://live.gnome.org/ThumbnailerSpec.
There are three methods to install tumbler-common 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 tumbler-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 tumbler-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tumbler-common
Install tumbler-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tumbler-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tumbler-common
Install tumbler-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install tumbler-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tumbler-common
How To Uninstall tumbler-common on Debian 9
To uninstall only the tumbler-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tumbler-common
Uninstall tumbler-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tumbler-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tumbler-common
Remove tumbler-common Configurations and Data
To remove tumbler-common configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tumbler-common
Remove tumbler-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tumbler-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tumbler-common
Dependencies
tumbler-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tumbler-common package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.