How To Install guetzli on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install guetzli
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is guetzli
guetzli is:
Guetzli is a JPEG encoder that aims for excellent compression density at high visual quality. Guetzli-generated images are typically 20-30% smaller than images of equivalent quality generated by libjpeg. Guetzli generates only sequential (nonprogressive) JPEGs due to faster decompression speeds they offer.
There are three methods to install guetzli
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install guetzli Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install guetzli
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install guetzli
Install guetzli Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install guetzli
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install guetzli
Install guetzli 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 guetzli
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install guetzli
How To Uninstall guetzli on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the guetzli
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove guetzli
Uninstall guetzli And Its Dependencies
To uninstall guetzli
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove guetzli
Remove guetzli Configurations and Data
To remove guetzli
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge guetzli
Remove guetzli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove guetzli
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge guetzli
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install guetzli
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.