How To Install gem-plugin-sgi on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gem-plugin-sgi on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gem-plugin-sgi
gem-plugin-sgi is:
Gem is a loadable library for Pure Data (Pd), which adds OpenGL graphics rendering and animation to Pd. Pd is a graphical programming language and computer music system.
This package provides image loading for SGI images. If you have installed the gem-plugin-magick package as well, you might find that you don’t need this package as you can already read and write(!) SGI images.
There are three methods to install gem-plugin-sgi on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gem-plugin-sgi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gem-plugin-sgi using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gem-plugin-sgi
Install gem-plugin-sgi Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gem-plugin-sgi using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gem-plugin-sgi
Install gem-plugin-sgi 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 gem-plugin-sgi using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gem-plugin-sgi
How To Uninstall gem-plugin-sgi on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gem-plugin-sgi package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gem-plugin-sgi
Uninstall gem-plugin-sgi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gem-plugin-sgi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gem-plugin-sgi
Remove gem-plugin-sgi Configurations and Data
To remove gem-plugin-sgi configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gem-plugin-sgi
Remove gem-plugin-sgi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gem-plugin-sgi configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gem-plugin-sgi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gem-plugin-sgi package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
