How To Install fabio-viewer on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fabio-viewer on Debian 10.
What is fabio-viewer
fabio-viewer is:
FabIO is an I/O library for images produced by 2D X-ray detectors and written in Python. FabIO support images detectors from a dozen of companies (including Mar, Dectris, ADSC, Hamamatsu, Oxford, …), for a total of 20 different file formats (like CBF, EDF, TIFF, …) and offers an unified interface to their headers (as a Python dictionary) and datasets (as a numpy ndarray of integers or floats)
Binaries provided with python-fabio
There are three methods to install fabio-viewer 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 fabio-viewer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fabio-viewer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fabio-viewer
Install fabio-viewer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fabio-viewer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fabio-viewer
Install fabio-viewer 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 fabio-viewer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fabio-viewer
How To Uninstall fabio-viewer on Debian 10
To uninstall only the fabio-viewer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fabio-viewer
Uninstall fabio-viewer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fabio-viewer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fabio-viewer
Remove fabio-viewer Configurations and Data
To remove fabio-viewer configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fabio-viewer
Remove fabio-viewer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fabio-viewer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fabio-viewer
Dependencies
fabio-viewer have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fabio-viewer package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.