How To Install libtiff-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtiff-tools
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libtiff-tools
libtiff-tools is:
libtiff is a library providing support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data. This package includes tools for converting TIFF images to and from other formats and tools for doing simple manipulations of TIFF images. See also libtiff-opengl. Task: ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-photography, ubuntustudio-graphics
Package: libtiff-tools 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: 661 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libtiff5 (>= 4.0.3) Suggests: libtiff-opengl Filename: pool/universe/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_4.1.0+git191117-2build1_amd64.deb Size: 193564 MD5sum: cd461f9ca8f86b0a188f367da7296a29 SHA1: 001b83f91e2a8a0e944e425ead441ccd4dae4256 SHA256: 017c3b5e542005dc0adf618bab64ccf3ce4664bc75b6e882d330a9f373063244 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 includes tools for converting TIFF images to and from other formats and tools for doing simple manipulations of TIFF images. See also libtiff-opengl. Task: ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-photography, ubuntustudio-graphics
There are three methods to install libtiff-tools
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-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 libtiff-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libtiff-tools
Install libtiff-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libtiff-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libtiff-tools
Install libtiff-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libtiff-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libtiff-tools
How To Uninstall libtiff-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libtiff-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libtiff-tools
Uninstall libtiff-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libtiff-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtiff-tools
Remove libtiff-tools Configurations and Data
To remove libtiff-tools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libtiff-tools
Remove libtiff-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libtiff-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtiff-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtiff-tools
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.