How To Install libturbojpeg on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libturbojpeg on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libturbojpeg
libturbojpeg is:
Runtime library supporting the Independent JPEG Group’s standard for JPEG files.
This package contains the libturbojpeg.so library, used by turboVNC and other users of the past TurboJPEG library.
Package: libturbojpeg Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.0.3-0ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: universe/libs Source: libjpeg-turbo Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 655 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14) Replaces: libjpeg-turbo8 (« 1.1.90+svn722-1ubuntu6) Filename: pool/universe/libj/libjpeg-turbo/libturbojpeg_2.0.3-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 155768 MD5sum: 23d08b62acc946dfed98b2888246e475 SHA1: 8ab82fe1f5469180c84be919350ba4452b4af89b SHA256: 812b84c2fb86c75b71fc84090d34825ecd3d0a8d8a637e96381fd6303433324c Homepage: http://libjpeg-turbo.virtualgl.org/ Description-en: IJG JPEG compliant runtime library. Runtime library supporting the Independent JPEG Group’s standard for JPEG files.
This package contains the libturbojpeg.so library, used by turboVNC and other users of the past TurboJPEG library.
There are three methods to install libturbojpeg 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 libturbojpeg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libturbojpeg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libturbojpeg
Install libturbojpeg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libturbojpeg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libturbojpeg
Install libturbojpeg 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 libturbojpeg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libturbojpeg
How To Uninstall libturbojpeg on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libturbojpeg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libturbojpeg
Uninstall libturbojpeg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libturbojpeg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libturbojpeg
Remove libturbojpeg Configurations and Data
To remove libturbojpeg configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libturbojpeg
Remove libturbojpeg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libturbojpeg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libturbojpeg
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libturbojpeg package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.