How To Install libtiff-opengl on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtiff-opengl
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libtiff-opengl
libtiff-opengl is:
libtiff is a library providing support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data. This package contains libtiff tools that depend upon opengl. It complements the libtiff-tools package, which contains the libtiff tools that don’t depend upon opengl.
Package: libtiff-opengl Architecture: amd64 Version: 4.1.0+git191117-2build1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/graphics Source: tiff Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 55 Depends: freeglut3, libc6 (>= 2.3.4), libgl1, libtiff5 (>= 4.0.3) Filename: pool/universe/t/tiff/libtiff-opengl_4.1.0+git191117-2build1_amd64.deb Size: 10760 MD5sum: f48d55ed5be97d226e52dcf2b3b82812 SHA1: d639276d754f379fc8b42ec4ba7aa0e6bf76311f SHA256: 178829aacdce817b2b5d3ba433a5bfdeab9d5d41e2f3bf7cceb4efc74a87e951 Homepage: https://libtiff.gitlab.io/libtiff/ Description-en: TIFF manipulation and conversion tools libtiff is a library providing support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data. This package contains libtiff tools that depend upon opengl. It complements the libtiff-tools package, which contains the libtiff tools that don’t depend upon opengl.
There are three methods to install libtiff-opengl
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 libtiff-opengl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libtiff-opengl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libtiff-opengl
Install libtiff-opengl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libtiff-opengl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libtiff-opengl
Install libtiff-opengl 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 libtiff-opengl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libtiff-opengl
How To Uninstall libtiff-opengl on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libtiff-opengl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libtiff-opengl
Uninstall libtiff-opengl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libtiff-opengl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtiff-opengl
Remove libtiff-opengl Configurations and Data
To remove libtiff-opengl
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libtiff-opengl
Remove libtiff-opengl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libtiff-opengl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtiff-opengl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtiff-opengl
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.