How To Install phototonic 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 phototonic on Ubuntu.
What is phototonic
phototonic is:
Phototonic is an image viewer and organizer for Linux written in C++ and Qt5.
Features:
- Light weight with a smooth and clear user interface
- Does not depend on any desktop environment
- Supports several customized thumbnail layouts
- Load thumbnails and browse images recursively on a folder tree
- Dynamic thumbnails loading, enables fast browsing of very large folders
- Filter thumbnails by name
- Image navigation and file management
- Slide show
- Transformation: rotation, flipping, cropping, image mirroring and scaling
- Adjust image brightness, saturation, hue and contrast
- Keep transformations, zoom and colors while browsing multiple images
- Extensive automatic and manual zoom options
- Supported image formats: BMP, GIF, ICO, JPEG, MNG, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, TGA, XBM, XPM and SVG, SVGZ, TIFF with plugins
- Supports GIF animations
- Keyboard shortcuts and mouse behavior customization
- Load image files or folders from command line
- Open images with external applications
There are three methods to install phototonic 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 phototonic Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install phototonic using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install phototonic
Install phototonic Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install phototonic using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install phototonic
Install phototonic 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 phototonic using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install phototonic
How To Uninstall phototonic on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the phototonic package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove phototonic
Uninstall phototonic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall phototonic and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove phototonic
Remove phototonic Configurations and Data
To remove phototonic configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge phototonic
Remove phototonic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove phototonic configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phototonic
Dependencies
phototonic have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install phototonic package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.