How To Install imview on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imview on Debian 10.
What is imview
imview is:
Imview is an application which
- Displays a large number of image formats.
- Displays 2D or 3D (as slices) images with a very good zoom and pan feature.
- Works with multi-spectral, time series or multi-page documents (e.g.: Satellite images, TIFF stacks, animated GIFs and heterogeneous multi-component files).
- Displays all pixel types (1-bit to 64-bit data, integer or floating point).
- Arbitrary 1-D profile of 2-D images (or of 2-D slices of 3-D images) can be displayed.
- Has support for arbitrary colourmaps for all pixel types (i.e.: false colour display).
- Has standard image manipulation facilities (brightness/contrast, gamma, zoom, crop, rotation, etc).
- Can be controlled remotely via sockets and text commands (for easy integration into various image analysis systems).
- Images can be uploaded into Imview via sockets or shared memory.
- And much more!
There are three methods to install imview 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 imview Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install imview using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install imview
Install imview Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install imview using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install imview
Install imview 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 imview using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install imview
How To Uninstall imview on Debian 10
To uninstall only the imview package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove imview
Uninstall imview And Its Dependencies
To uninstall imview and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove imview
Remove imview Configurations and Data
To remove imview configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge imview
Remove imview configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove imview configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imview
Dependencies
imview have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imview package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.