How To Install gocr-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gocr-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gocr-dev
gocr-dev is:
This is a multi-platform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program.
It can read pnm, pbm, pgm, ppm, some pcx and tga image files.
These are the header files.
There are three methods to install gocr-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gocr-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gocr-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gocr-dev
Install gocr-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gocr-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gocr-dev
Install gocr-dev 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gocr-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gocr-dev
How To Uninstall gocr-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gocr-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gocr-dev
Uninstall gocr-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gocr-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gocr-dev
Remove gocr-dev Configurations and Data
To remove gocr-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gocr-dev
Remove gocr-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gocr-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gocr-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gocr-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.