How To Install sng on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sng on Debian 9.
What is sng
sng is:
SNG (Scriptable Network Graphics) is a minilanguage designed specifically to represent the entire contents of a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file in an editable form. Thus, SNGs representing elaborate graphics images and ancillary chunk data can be readily generated or modified using only text tools.
SNG is implemented by a compiler/decompiler called sng that losslessly translates between SNG and PNG.
There are three methods to install sng on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install sng Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sng using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sng
Install sng Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sng using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sng
Install sng 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 sng using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sng
How To Uninstall sng on Debian 9
To uninstall only the sng package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sng
Uninstall sng And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sng and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sng
Remove sng Configurations and Data
To remove sng configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sng
Remove sng configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sng configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sng
Dependencies
sng have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sng package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
