How To Install libgs9-common on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgs9-common on Ubuntu 20.04. libgs9-common is interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - common files interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - common files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgs9-common on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is `libgs9-common`

libgs9-common is:

GPL Ghostscript is used for PostScript/PDF preview and printing. Usually as a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display PostScript and PDF documents in an X11 environment.

This package provides common architecture-independent files needed by the GPL Ghostscript library.

By default, GPL Ghostscript uses a font from the fonts-droid package to approximate glyphs in PDFs for which the requested CJK TrueType font is missing. If the fonts-droid package is not installed, these glyphs will be rendered as bullets. Task: print-server, ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop

Package: libgs9-common Architecture: all Version: 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: libs Source: ghostscript Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Printing Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2999 Depends: fonts-urw-base35 (« 20170801.1.0~), fonts-urw-base35 (>= 20170801.1) Recommends: fonts-droid-fallback Filename: pool/main/g/ghostscript/libgs9-common_9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4_all.deb Size: 680736 MD5sum: 22fa7875e0773685b43fa320a508a268 SHA1: ffb7817babd7906a3cebe7bdcc46b05a8c45ea58 SHA256: 968f3d83fc264176bf59d849930ec19bcb6b96bc63e1aa5ceeb7227927d2d26d Homepage: https://www.ghostscript.com/ Description-en: interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - common files GPL Ghostscript is used for PostScript/PDF preview and printing. Usually as a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display PostScript and PDF documents in an X11 environment.

This package provides common architecture-independent files needed by the GPL Ghostscript library.

There are three methods to install libgs9-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 libgs9-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 libgs9-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libgs9-common

Install libgs9-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libgs9-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libgs9-common

Install libgs9-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 libgs9-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libgs9-common

How To Uninstall libgs9-common on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the libgs9-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libgs9-common

Uninstall libgs9-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libgs9-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgs9-common

Remove libgs9-common Configurations and Data

To remove libgs9-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libgs9-common

Remove libgs9-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libgs9-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgs9-common

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgs9-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.