How To Install libcairo-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcairo-perl on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libcairo-perl
libcairo-perl is:
libcairo-perl provides access to the Cairo library.
Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. It is designed to produce consistent output on all output media while taking advantage of display hardware acceleration when available (eg. through the X Render Extension).
The cairo API provides operations similar to the drawing operators of PostScript and PDF. Operations in cairo including stroking and filling cubic Bézier splines, transforming and compositing translucent images, and antialiased text rendering. All drawing operations can be transformed by any affine transformation (scale, rotation, shear, etc.)
Find out more about Cairo at http://www.cairographics.org/.
There are three methods to install libcairo-perl 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 libcairo-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcairo-perl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcairo-perl
Install libcairo-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcairo-perl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcairo-perl
Install libcairo-perl 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 libcairo-perl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcairo-perl
How To Uninstall libcairo-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libcairo-perl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcairo-perl
Uninstall libcairo-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcairo-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcairo-perl
Remove libcairo-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libcairo-perl configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcairo-perl
Remove libcairo-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcairo-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcairo-perl
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcairo-perl package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
