How To Install tumbler-plugins-extra on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tumbler-plugins-extra
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is tumbler-plugins-extra
tumbler-plugins-extra 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.
This package adds the following plugins to tumbler:
- Cover thumbnailer for movies
- FFMpeg/Libav thumbnailer for video files
- OpenDocument Format thumbnailer
- Raw Digital Camera Images thumbnailer.
There are three methods to install tumbler-plugins-extra
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tumbler-plugins-extra 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-plugins-extra
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tumbler-plugins-extra
Install tumbler-plugins-extra Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tumbler-plugins-extra
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tumbler-plugins-extra
Install tumbler-plugins-extra 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 tumbler-plugins-extra
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tumbler-plugins-extra
How To Uninstall tumbler-plugins-extra on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the tumbler-plugins-extra
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tumbler-plugins-extra
Uninstall tumbler-plugins-extra And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tumbler-plugins-extra
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tumbler-plugins-extra
Remove tumbler-plugins-extra Configurations and Data
To remove tumbler-plugins-extra
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tumbler-plugins-extra
Remove tumbler-plugins-extra configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tumbler-plugins-extra
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tumbler-plugins-extra
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tumbler-plugins-extra
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.