How To Install openalpr-daemon on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openalpr-daemon on Debian 10.
What is openalpr-daemon
openalpr-daemon is:
OpenALPR is an open source Automatic License Plate Recognition library written in C++. The library analyzes images and identifies license plates. The output is the text representation of any license plate characters found in the image.
The OpenALPR daemon allows you to monitor a camera stream for license plate numbers in the background. Alprd runs as a daemon process on Linux.
The plate numbers can be streamed to another server (via HTTP posts) or can be consumed programmatically via a beanstalkd queue.
There are three methods to install openalpr-daemon 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 openalpr-daemon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install openalpr-daemon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openalpr-daemon
Install openalpr-daemon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openalpr-daemon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openalpr-daemon
Install openalpr-daemon 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 openalpr-daemon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openalpr-daemon
How To Uninstall openalpr-daemon on Debian 10
To uninstall only the openalpr-daemon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openalpr-daemon
Uninstall openalpr-daemon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openalpr-daemon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openalpr-daemon
Remove openalpr-daemon Configurations and Data
To remove openalpr-daemon configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openalpr-daemon
Remove openalpr-daemon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openalpr-daemon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openalpr-daemon
Dependencies
openalpr-daemon have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openalpr-daemon package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
