How To Install perlmagick on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perlmagick
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is perlmagick
perlmagick is:
PerlMagick is an objected-oriented Perl interface to ImageMagick. Use the module to read, manipulate, or write an image or image sequence from within a Perl script. This makes it very suitable for Web CGI scripts.
This is a transitional package to help migrate systems to the new libimage-magick-perl perl library.
This is a dummy package. You can safely purge or remove it.
Package: perlmagick Architecture: all Version: 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/perl Source: imagemagick Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: ImageMagick Packaging Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 12 Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2) Depends: imagemagick-6-common (= 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11), libimage-magick-perl Filename: pool/universe/i/imagemagick/perlmagick_6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11_all.deb Size: 1404 MD5sum: 5ce7607a63cda99006a4c8c80ab0509a SHA1: 0931b3f8cced8f560ce9eccbb4f26f6ae799a5be SHA256: fea5b897a0beefee8cb0018816e7791e9fe17f648ce9dac4ff55f03b04915052 Homepage: https://www.imagemagick.org/ Description-en: Perl interface to ImageMagick – dummy package PerlMagick is an objected-oriented Perl interface to ImageMagick. Use the module to read, manipulate, or write an image or image sequence from within a Perl script. This makes it very suitable for Web CGI scripts.
This is a transitional package to help migrate systems to the new libimage-magick-perl perl library.
This is a dummy package. You can safely purge or remove it.
There are three methods to install perlmagick
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 perlmagick Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install perlmagick
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install perlmagick
Install perlmagick Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install perlmagick
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install perlmagick
Install perlmagick 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 perlmagick
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install perlmagick
How To Uninstall perlmagick on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the perlmagick
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove perlmagick
Uninstall perlmagick And Its Dependencies
To uninstall perlmagick
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove perlmagick
Remove perlmagick Configurations and Data
To remove perlmagick
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge perlmagick
Remove perlmagick configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove perlmagick
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge perlmagick
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perlmagick
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.