How To Install pngtools on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pngtools
on Debian 10.
What is pngtools
pngtools is:
pngtools is a suite of utilities to work with PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files, equivalents to libtiff’s tiffinfo, and tiffcp commands. These commands are called pnginfo, pngcp. tiffdump is replaced by pngchunks and pngchunkdesc as well.
There are three methods to install pngtools
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 pngtools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pngtools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pngtools
Install pngtools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pngtools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pngtools
Install pngtools 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 pngtools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pngtools
How To Uninstall pngtools on Debian 10
To uninstall only the pngtools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pngtools
Uninstall pngtools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pngtools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pngtools
Remove pngtools Configurations and Data
To remove pngtools
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pngtools
Remove pngtools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pngtools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pngtools
Dependencies
pngtools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pngtools
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.