How To Install fabio-viewer on Debian 10

Learn how to install fabio-viewer on Debian 10 with this tutorial. fabio-viewer is Viewer for images produced by 2D X-ray detector

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fabio-viewer on Debian 10.

What is fabio-viewer

fabio-viewer is:

FabIO is an I/O library for images produced by 2D X-ray detectors and written in Python. FabIO support images detectors from a dozen of companies (including Mar, Dectris, ADSC, Hamamatsu, Oxford, …), for a total of 20 different file formats (like CBF, EDF, TIFF, …) and offers an unified interface to their headers (as a Python dictionary) and datasets (as a numpy ndarray of integers or floats)

Binaries provided with python-fabio

There are three methods to install fabio-viewer on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install fabio-viewer Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install fabio-viewer using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fabio-viewer

Install fabio-viewer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fabio-viewer using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fabio-viewer

Install fabio-viewer 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 fabio-viewer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fabio-viewer

How To Uninstall fabio-viewer on Debian 10

To uninstall only the fabio-viewer package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fabio-viewer

Uninstall fabio-viewer And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fabio-viewer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fabio-viewer

Remove fabio-viewer Configurations and Data

To remove fabio-viewer configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fabio-viewer

Remove fabio-viewer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fabio-viewer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fabio-viewer

Dependencies

fabio-viewer have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fabio-viewer package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.