How To Install digikam on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install digikam on Debian 9.
What is digikam
digikam is:
Digital photo management program designed to import, organize, enhance, search and export your digital images to and from your computer.
It provides a simple interface which makes importing and organizing digital photographs a “snap”. digiKam enables you to manage large numbers of digital photographs in albums and to organize these photographs for easy retrieval using tags (keywords), captions, collections, dates, geolocation and searches. It has many features for viewing, organizing, processing and sharing your images. Thus, digiKam is a formidable digital asset management (DAM) software including powerful image editing functions.
An easy-to-use camera interface is provided, that will connect to your digital camera and download photographs directly into digiKam albums. More than 1000 digital cameras are supported by the gphoto2 library. Of course, any media or card reader supported by your operating system will interface with digiKam.
digiKam incorporates a fast Image Editor with many image editing tools. You can use the Image Editor to view your photographs, comment and rate them, correct, enhance and alter them. The editing power can be easily extended by a set of plugins, the KDE Image Plugins Interface (manual)
While digiKam remains easy to use, it provides professional level features by the dozens. It is fully 16 bit enabled including all available plugins, supports RAW format conversion through libraw, DNG export and ICC color management work flow.
digiKam can also make use of the KIPI image handling plugins to extend its capabilities even further for photo manipulations, import and export, etc. The kipi-plugins package contains many very useful extensions.
There are three methods to install digikam 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 digikam Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install digikam using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install digikam
Install digikam Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install digikam using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install digikam
Install digikam 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 digikam using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install digikam
How To Uninstall digikam on Debian 9
To uninstall only the digikam package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove digikam
Uninstall digikam And Its Dependencies
To uninstall digikam and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove digikam
Remove digikam Configurations and Data
To remove digikam configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge digikam
Remove digikam configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove digikam configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge digikam
Dependencies
digikam have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install digikam package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.