How To Install imagemagick-6-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imagemagick-6-common on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is imagemagick-6-common
imagemagick-6-common is:
imagemagick-common contains the filesystem infrastructure required for further installation of imagemagick in any configuration; it does not provide a full installation of binaries, libraries, and utilities required to run imagemagick.
This package is independent of channel depth. Task: lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-graphics, ubuntustudio-audio
Package: imagemagick-6-common Architecture: all Version: 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/graphics Source: imagemagick Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: ImageMagick Packaging Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 480 Provides: imagemagick-common Breaks: imagemagick-common (« 8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-1~), libmagickcore-6.q16-2 (« 8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-3~), libmagickcore-6.q16-3 (« 8:6.9.6.8+dfsg-1~), libmagickcore-6.q16-4 (« 8:6.9.8.9+dfsg-1~), libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-4 (« 8:6.9.8.9+dfsg-1~) Replaces: imagemagick-common (« 8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-1~), libmagickcore-6.q16 (« 8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-3~) Filename: pool/universe/i/imagemagick/imagemagick-6-common_6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11_all.deb Size: 60816 MD5sum: d04b63652cea386187a3fe4ab5f358d2 SHA1: 5df093a38ecff2c0055726baa5442f6b93158dbb SHA256: 929c69f653258d451ec960d67a40eab06f3667511e1121703b34160782b032c4 Homepage: https://www.imagemagick.org/ Description-en: image manipulation programs – infrastructure imagemagick-common contains the filesystem infrastructure required for further installation of imagemagick in any configuration; it does not provide a full installation of binaries, libraries, and utilities required to run imagemagick.
This package is independent of channel depth. Task: lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-graphics, ubuntustudio-audio
There are three methods to install imagemagick-6-common 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 imagemagick-6-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install imagemagick-6-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install imagemagick-6-common
Install imagemagick-6-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install imagemagick-6-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install imagemagick-6-common
Install imagemagick-6-common 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 imagemagick-6-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install imagemagick-6-common
How To Uninstall imagemagick-6-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the imagemagick-6-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove imagemagick-6-common
Uninstall imagemagick-6-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall imagemagick-6-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove imagemagick-6-common
Remove imagemagick-6-common Configurations and Data
To remove imagemagick-6-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge imagemagick-6-common
Remove imagemagick-6-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove imagemagick-6-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imagemagick-6-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imagemagick-6-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
