HOW TO INSTALL GPICVIEW BEST IMAGE VIEWER IN UBUNTU 16.04
HOW TO INSTALL GPICVIEW BEST IMAGE VIEWER IN UBUNTU 16.04
Introduction
In this article we are going to learn How to install Gpicview best image viewer in Ubuntu 16.04. Gpicview is a open source application used to view pic’s, images. It’s an nice light weight image viewer application comes with some cool features like any other image viewer application i.e. It supports image formats like TIFF, PNG, JPEG. and so on, rotate images as you like, zoom in & out, if you have so many images then can start the slide show to change the images one by one automatically. The Gpicview best image viewer application was developed by Hong Jen Yee and released under GNU GPL license.
Follow the below steps to install Gpicview best image viewer in Ubuntu 16.04
Before start the installation just update the packages and repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update # Update Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/smplayer/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Now let’s go ahead and install Gpicview best image viewer package using below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install gpicview # Install Gpicview Image Viewer Package
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gpicview
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 389 not upgraded.
Need to get 107 kB of archives.
After this operation, 650 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 gpicview amd64 0.2.5-1 [107 kB]
Fetched 107 kB in 1s (77.6 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package gpicview.
(Reading database ... 200805 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gpicview_0.2.5-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking gpicview (0.2.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up gpicview (0.2.5-1) ...
As you can see above we have successfully installed the Gpicview image viewer package successfully. To confirm the same refer the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l gpicview # Confirm the installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii gpicview 0.2.5-1 amd64 lightweight image viewer
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Now to open the application just type the command gpicview on shell prompt. Refer the command below.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ gpicview # Open the Gpicview image viewer application
GPICVIEW BEST IMAGE VIEWER
You can also open the Gpicview best image viewer application graphically using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.
OPEN GPICVIEW IMAGE VIEWER GRAPHICALLY
To uninstall the application you can use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r gpicview # Uninstall the Gpicview Package
(Reading database ... 200887 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gpicview (0.2.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
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