How To Install eog on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install eog on Ubuntu 20.04. eog is Eye of GNOME graphics viewer program Eye of GNOME graphics viewer program

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install eog on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is eog

eog is:

eog or the Eye of GNOME is a simple graphics viewer for the GNOME desktop which uses the gdk-pixbuf library. It can deal with large images, and zoom and scroll with constant memory usage. Its goals are simplicity and standards compliance. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop

Package: eog Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.36.1-1 Priority: optional Section: gnome Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2188 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libcairo2 (>= 1.14.0), libexempi8 (>= 2.5.0), libexif12 (>= 0.6.21-1~), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.36.5), libgirepository-1.0-1 (>= 0.9.12), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.42.0), libgnome-desktop-3-19 (>= 3.17.92), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.22.0), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), liblcms2-2 (>= 2.2+git20110628), libpeas-1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0), librsvg2-2 (>= 2.44), libx11-6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, gir1.2-gtk-3.0 (>= 3.22.0), shared-mime-info (>= 0.20), gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 2.91.92), gir1.2-peas-1.0 Recommends: librsvg2-common, yelp Suggests: eog-plugins Breaks: eog-plugins (« 3.16.4-2~) Filename: pool/main/e/eog/eog_3.36.1-1_amd64.deb Size: 420280 MD5sum: 3ffebffb396028bddc6f87fc04124db0 SHA1: 6ef207c03728c052c01b1dd2d98e1054e6836b7c SHA256: 537645f7ab64688f4213137ed54e256c39f4e5f02dbc07e1835a318b5c922b7b Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EyeOfGnome Description-en: Eye of GNOME graphics viewer program eog or the Eye of GNOME is a simple graphics viewer for the GNOME desktop which uses the gdk-pixbuf library. It can deal with large images, and zoom and scroll with constant memory usage. Its goals are simplicity and standards compliance. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop

There are three methods to install eog 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 eog Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install eog using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install eog

Install eog Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install eog using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install eog

Install eog 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 eog using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install eog

How To Uninstall eog on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove eog

Uninstall eog And Its Dependencies

To uninstall eog and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove eog

Remove eog Configurations and Data

To remove eog configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge eog

Remove eog configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove eog configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eog

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install eog package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.