How To Install gnuift on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuift on Debian 9.
What is gnuift
gnuift is:
The GIFT (the GNU Image-Finding Tool) is a Content Based Image Retrieval System (CBIRS). It enables you to do Query By Example on images, giving you the opportunity to improve query results by relevance feedback. For processing your queries the program relies entirely on the content of the images, freeing you from the need to annotate all images before querying the collection.
The GIFT comes with a tool which lets you index whole directory trees containing images in one go. You then can use the GIFT server and its client, to browse your own image collections.
The GIFT is an open framework. The developers explicitly have taken into account the possibility of adding new ways of querying to the framework. The communication protocol for client-server communication, MRML, is XML based and fully documented (http://www.mrml.net). This aims at promoting code reuse among researchers and application developers.
The current version of the GIFT can be seen in action at http://viper.unige.ch/demo/
The GIFT (ex Viper) is the result of a research effort at the Vision Group at the CUI (computer science center) of the University of Geneva (see http://vision.unige.ch/). This cutting-edge research has been the subject of several publications and conference talks. Details can be found at http://viper.unige.ch/.
To avoid a name clash with the “gift” package (a fasttrack filesharing client), these packages have been named “gnuift” (also to stress that gnuift is a GNU project).
There are three methods to install gnuift 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 gnuift Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnuift using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnuift
Install gnuift Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnuift using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnuift
Install gnuift 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 gnuift using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnuift
How To Uninstall gnuift on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gnuift package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnuift
Uninstall gnuift And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnuift and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnuift
Remove gnuift Configurations and Data
To remove gnuift configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnuift
Remove gnuift configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnuift configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnuift
Dependencies
gnuift have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuift package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
