The ubiquitous and time-honored XV is the industry-leading program for
fast, no-nonsense image display in the X Window System. It can operate on
many image formats including JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, TIFF, PBM, PGM, PPM,
XPM, X11 bitmap, Sun Rasterfile, Targa, BPM, RGB, BMP, PCX, FITS, and PM,
on all known types of X displays.
Enable snaps on Debian and install XV Image Viewer
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Enable snapd
On Debian 9 (Stretch) and newer, snap can be installed directly from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
After this, install the snapd snap in order to get the latest snapd:
sudo snap install snapd
Install XV Image Viewer
To install XV Image Viewer, simply use the following command: