How To Install imagemagick-6.q16 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imagemagick-6.q16 on Debian 10.
What is imagemagick-6.q16
imagemagick-6.q16 is:
ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and B?zier curves. All manipulations can be achieved through shell commands as well as through an X11 graphical interface (display).
For working with the SVG, WMF, OpenEXR, DjVu and Graphviz formats, you need to install the libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra package.
This version of imagemagick is compiled for a channel depth of 16 bits (Q16).
There are three methods to install imagemagick-6.q16 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 imagemagick-6.q16 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install imagemagick-6.q16 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install imagemagick-6.q16
Install imagemagick-6.q16 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install imagemagick-6.q16 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install imagemagick-6.q16
Install imagemagick-6.q16 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 imagemagick-6.q16 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install imagemagick-6.q16
How To Uninstall imagemagick-6.q16 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the imagemagick-6.q16 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove imagemagick-6.q16
Uninstall imagemagick-6.q16 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall imagemagick-6.q16 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove imagemagick-6.q16
Remove imagemagick-6.q16 Configurations and Data
To remove imagemagick-6.q16 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge imagemagick-6.q16
Remove imagemagick-6.q16 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove imagemagick-6.q16 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imagemagick-6.q16
Dependencies
imagemagick-6.q16 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imagemagick-6.q16 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
