How To Install libgd-tools on Debian 10

Learn how to install libgd-tools on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libgd-tools is GD command line tools and example code

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgd-tools on Debian 10.

What is libgd-tools

libgd-tools is:

GD is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colours, cut and paste from other images, flood fills, and write out the result as a PNG file. This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications, where PNG is one of the formats accepted for inline images by most browsers.

This is some simple command line tools and example code that use the GD graphics library.

There are three methods to install libgd-tools 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 libgd-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libgd-tools

Install libgd-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libgd-tools

Install libgd-tools 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 libgd-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libgd-tools

How To Uninstall libgd-tools on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libgd-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libgd-tools

Uninstall libgd-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgd-tools

Remove libgd-tools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libgd-tools

Remove libgd-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgd-tools

Dependencies

libgd-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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