Complete Guide: Installing timg on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) 2025

1. Install "timg" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install timg on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "timg" package

Learn how to uninstall timg on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the timg package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: timg
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.4.2-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Tobias Frost
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1145
Depends: libavcodec58 (>= 7:4.2), libavdevice58 (>= 7:4.0), libavformat58 (>= 7:4.1), libavutil56 (>= 7:4.0), libc6 (>= 2.33), libexif12 (>= 0.6.21-1~), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12 (>= 1.3.26-5~), libgraphicsmagick-q16-3 (>= 1.3.5), libopenslide0 (>= 3.4.1+dfsg), libstdc++6 (>= 7), libswscale5 (>= 7:4.0), libturbojpeg, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Filename: pool/universe/t/timg/timg_1.4.2-2_amd64.deb
Size: 956240
MD5sum: cc5928cfd032a9e6578dd7abfac2ca0e
SHA1: 37eec64cb48740cb8806979599d9b4e5edfaf21d
SHA256: 5f209dc61ae2aff5337a01ecdd4f809cab4638d326657251b41527c6babe92a1
SHA512: 328ca089612ac6298f889ad6e0d56f990643328c3e7c731fc67f778ee8bd1ae66aa796a01c6c2453738b5f8b9720e5cfc9a49d5cf9f6acf0733dbb00dea87550
Homepage: https://github.com/hzeller/timg
Description-en: terminal image and video viewer
A user-friendly viewer that uses 24-Bit color capabilities and unicode
character blocks to display images, animations and videos in the terminal.
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On terminals that implement the Kitty Graphics Protocol or the iTerm2 Graphics
Protocol this displays images in full resolution.
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Useful if you want to have a quick visual check without leaving the comfort of
your shell and having to start a bulky image viewer. Sometimes this is the only
way if your terminal is connected remotely via ssh. And of course if you don't
need the resolution. While icons typically fit pixel-perfect, larger images are
scaled down to match the resolution.
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The command line accepts any number of image/video filenames that it shows in
sequence one per page or in a grid in multiple columns, depending on your
choice of --grid. The output is emitted in-line with minimally messing with
your terminal, so you can simply go back in history using your terminals'
scroll-bar (Or redirecting the output to a file allows you to later simply cat
that file to your terminal. Even less -R seems to be happy with it).
Description-md5: 434d58c0b5ce1f9ee79e12c4a89e5bf0