How To Install gamera-gui on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install gamera-gui on Debian 9. gamera-gui is GUI for the Gamera framework

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gamera-gui on Debian 9.

What is gamera-gui

gamera-gui is:

The Gamera framework is a Python library for building custom applications for document analysis and recognition.

This package contains GUI for Gamera.

There are three methods to install gamera-gui 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 gamera-gui Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gamera-gui

Install gamera-gui Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gamera-gui

Install gamera-gui 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 gamera-gui using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gamera-gui

How To Uninstall gamera-gui on Debian 9

To uninstall only the gamera-gui package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gamera-gui

Uninstall gamera-gui And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gamera-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gamera-gui

Remove gamera-gui Configurations and Data

To remove gamera-gui configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gamera-gui

Remove gamera-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gamera-gui

Dependencies

gamera-gui have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gamera-gui package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.