How to Install GThumb on Linux mint 18.03

To Install GThumb on Linux mint 18.03
gThumb is designed with a simple interface to view and organize image that can export images to Facebook, Flickr or Photo bucket. It allows the users to edit image including copying, moving, deleting or duplicating, format conversion and batch renaming. gThumb is also known as an importer tool, which helps to transfer photos from cameras. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of gthumb on linuxmint-18.03.

Installation
Let's first start with updating the system repositories


linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease \[11.5 kB\]                      
Ign:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                          
Get:4 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial/partner amd64 Packages \[3,156 B\]              
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease \[107 kB\]                                  
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Get:41 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/main Translation-en \[4,180 B\]                      
Get:42 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 Packages \[7,420 B\]                  
Get:43 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe i386 Packages \[7,104 B\]                   
Get:44 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe Translation-en \[3,996 B\]                  
Fetched 6,170 kB in 12s (511 kB/s)                                                                          
Reading package lists... Done

Install the Gthumb application run the following command.


linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install gthumb -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  gthumb-data
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gthumb gthumb-data
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 434 not upgraded.
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Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22+linuxmint1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up gthumb-data (3:3.4.3-1) ...
Setting up gthumb (3:3.4.3-1) ...

Once Installation is done you can access the application from the Menu as shown here

Now, you can able to use the gthumb application.

The version of gthumb.

With this, the method to install gthumb on Linuxmint-18.03 comes to an end.

FAQ
Q
How to check the version of the Gthumb in Ubuntu?
A
Following command is used to check the version of the

Syntax: "gthumb --version"
Q
What are the options for slideshow in Gthumb?
A
For Slideshow

F5 Start a slideshow

P Pause/Unpause the slideshow

Esc/Q Close the slideshow

Spacebar/Down Arrow Load the next image

Backspace/Up Arrow Load the previous image
Q
What are the options of editing the Viewer mode?
A
The options are
A Adjust contrast

L Flip image

M Mirror image

R Rotate right

R Rotate left

C Crop image

S Resize image
Q
How to install gThump in terminal?
A
Install the gThumb package by executing the following command


# apt-get install gthumb
Q
What is the features of gThumb?
A
The gThumb is free and open source image viewer and organizer with a couple of options to edit images. It is based on GQView and intergrates well with GNOME desktop environment.