How To Install tumbler 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 tumbler on Ubuntu.

What is `tumbler`

tumbler 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 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 tumbler 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tumbler

Install tumbler Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tumbler

Install tumbler 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tumbler

How To Uninstall tumbler on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove tumbler

Uninstall tumbler And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tumbler

Remove tumbler Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tumbler

Remove tumbler configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tumbler

Dependencies

tumbler have the following dependencies:

References

tumbler website

Summary

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