How to Install and Uninstall libffmpegthumbnailer-dev Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: March 15,2025

1. Install "libffmpegthumbnailer-dev" package

This tutorial shows how to install libffmpegthumbnailer-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libffmpegthumbnailer-dev" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall libffmpegthumbnailer-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libffmpegthumbnailer-dev
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libffmpegthumbnailer-dev package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: libffmpegthumbnailer-dev
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libdevel
Installed-Size: 31
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Lionel Le Folgoc
Architecture: amd64
Source: ffmpegthumbnailer
Version: 2.0.10-0.1
Depends: libffmpegthumbnailer4v5 (= 2.0.10-0.1)
Filename: pool/universe/f/ffmpegthumbnailer/libffmpegthumbnailer-dev_2.0.10-0.1_amd64.deb
Size: 4144
MD5sum: 7b70e10aed727e9319981df6bb9fce21
SHA1: e73e2ec3d02cd94f9a7ce375d162cff113816b31
SHA256: 8cc67630c493949deef14191767160bdd5139661a2dd48187c172b44a56fa1ef
Description-en: development files for ffmpegthumbnailer
FFmpegthumbnailer is a lightweight video thumbnailer that can be used by file
managers to create thumbnails for your video files. The thumbnailer uses ffmpeg
to decode frames from the video files, so supported videoformats depend on the
configuration flags of ffmpeg.
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This package contains the development files distributed with ffmpegthumbnailer.
Description-md5: 9ef8cb4c6ff2307cf16b3fa32390586b
Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/ffmpegthumbnailer/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m