How To Install hugin-tools on Debian 10

Learn how to install hugin-tools on Debian 10 with this tutorial. hugin-tools is panorama photo stitcher - commandline tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hugin-tools on Debian 10.

What is hugin-tools

hugin-tools is:

Hugin is a panorama photo stitching program.

This package includes command-line tools used by hugin and other packages for image stitching and High Dynamic Range (HDR) images:

  • align_image_stack - Align overlapping images for HDR creation.
  • autooptimiser - Optimize image positions.
  • celeste_standalone - Remove cloud-like control points.
  • cpclean - Remove wrong control points.
  • cpfind - Patent-free control-point detector
  • deghosting_mask - Creates mask for removing ghosting in images.
  • fulla - Correct lens distortion, vignetting, and chromatic aberration.
  • geocpset - Set geometric control points.
  • hugin_executor - CLI stitching tool.
  • hugin_hdrmerge - Merge overlapping images.
  • hugin_lensdb - Hugin lens database maintenance.
  • icpfind - Control-point detector wrapper program.
  • linefind - Detect vertical features in images.
  • nona - Remap images. (Also does simple stitching.)
  • pano_modify - Change output parameters of project file.
  • pto_gen - Generate a Hugin project file from a list of images.
  • pto_lensstack - Modify assigned lenses and stack in pto files.
  • pto_mask - Apply a mask.
  • pto_merge - Merges two or more Hugin project files.
  • pto_move - Move a project file with all images in it.
  • pto_template - Apply a template file.
  • pto_var - Change image variables inside Hugin .pto project files
  • tca_correct - Calculate transverse chromatic aberration.
  • verdandi - Blend images using watershed algorithm.
  • vig_optimize - Determine the radial vignetting.

There are three methods to install hugin-tools 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 hugin-tools Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install hugin-tools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install hugin-tools

Install hugin-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install hugin-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install hugin-tools

Install hugin-tools 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 hugin-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install hugin-tools

How To Uninstall hugin-tools on Debian 10

To uninstall only the hugin-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove hugin-tools

Uninstall hugin-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall hugin-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hugin-tools

Remove hugin-tools Configurations and Data

To remove hugin-tools configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge hugin-tools

Remove hugin-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove hugin-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hugin-tools

Dependencies

hugin-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hugin-tools package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.