How To Install gnome-photos on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-photos on Ubuntu.
What is gnome-photos
gnome-photos is:
GNOME Photos is designed to fulfill your needs to:
- View local and online/cloud collections
- View photos on attached devices
- View photos on DLNA media servers
- See new photos shared by friends
- View full screen slideshows
- Share photos
- Upload photos
- Set as background
- Select favorites
- Very basic manipulation: Crop, Enhance, Combine into an Album
There are three methods to install gnome-photos on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gnome-photos Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-photos using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-photos
Install gnome-photos Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-photos using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-photos
Install gnome-photos 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 gnome-photos using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-photos
How To Uninstall gnome-photos on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the gnome-photos package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-photos
Uninstall gnome-photos And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-photos and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-photos
Remove gnome-photos Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-photos configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-photos
Remove gnome-photos configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-photos configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-photos
Dependencies
gnome-photos have the following dependencies:
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libatk1.0-0
- libbabl-0.1-0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libdazzle-1.0-0
- libgdata22
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libgegl-0.4-0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-photos package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.