How To Install imagemagick-6.q16hdri on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install imagemagick-6.q16hdri on Ubuntu 18.04. imagemagick-6.q16hdri is image manipulation programs – quantum depth Q16HDRI

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install imagemagick-6.q16hdri on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is imagemagick-6.q16hdri

imagemagick-6.q16hdri 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 Bézier 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.q16hdri-3-extra package.

This version of imagemagick is compiled for a channel depth of 16 bits with high dynamic range (Q16HDRI).

There are three methods to install imagemagick-6.q16hdri 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 imagemagick-6.q16hdri 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.q16hdri using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install imagemagick-6.q16hdri

Install imagemagick-6.q16hdri Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install imagemagick-6.q16hdri using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install imagemagick-6.q16hdri

Install imagemagick-6.q16hdri 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 imagemagick-6.q16hdri using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install imagemagick-6.q16hdri

How To Uninstall imagemagick-6.q16hdri on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the imagemagick-6.q16hdri package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove imagemagick-6.q16hdri

Uninstall imagemagick-6.q16hdri And Its Dependencies

To uninstall imagemagick-6.q16hdri and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove imagemagick-6.q16hdri

Remove imagemagick-6.q16hdri Configurations and Data

To remove imagemagick-6.q16hdri configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge imagemagick-6.q16hdri

Remove imagemagick-6.q16hdri configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove imagemagick-6.q16hdri configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imagemagick-6.q16hdri

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install imagemagick-6.q16hdri package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.