How To Install comix on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install comix on Debian 9.
What is comix
comix is:
Comix is a comic book viewer. It reads zip, rar, tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives (often called .cbz, .cbr and .cbt) as well as normal image files. It is written in Python and has a simple user interface using PyGTK.
Main Features:
- Fullscreen mode.
- Double page mode.
- Fit-to-screen mode.
- Zooming and scrolling.
- Rotation and mirroring.
- Magnification lens.
- Changeable image scaling quality.
- Image enhancement.
- Can read right-to-left to fit manga etc.
- Caching for faster page flipping.
- Bookmarks support.
- Customizable GUI.
- Archive comments support.
- Archive converter.
- Thumbnail browser.
- Standards compliant.
- Translated to English, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and German.
- Reads the JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, ICO, XPM and XBM image formats.
- Reads ZIP and tar archives natively, and RAR archives through the unrar program.
- Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and virtually any other UNIX-like OS.
- More!
There are three methods to install comix on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install comix Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install comix using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install comix
Install comix Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install comix using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install comix
Install comix Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install comix using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install comix
How To Uninstall comix on Debian 9
To uninstall only the comix package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove comix
Uninstall comix And Its Dependencies
To uninstall comix and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove comix
Remove comix Configurations and Data
To remove comix configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge comix
Remove comix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove comix configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge comix
Dependencies
comix have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install comix package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
