How To Install libcuneiform-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcuneiform-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libcuneiform-dev
libcuneiform-dev is:
Cuneiform is an OCR system. In addition to text recognition it also does layout analysis and text format recognition.
The following languages are supported: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.
This package contains the development support files.
There are three methods to install libcuneiform-dev 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 libcuneiform-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcuneiform-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcuneiform-dev
Install libcuneiform-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcuneiform-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcuneiform-dev
Install libcuneiform-dev 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 libcuneiform-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcuneiform-dev
How To Uninstall libcuneiform-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libcuneiform-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcuneiform-dev
Uninstall libcuneiform-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcuneiform-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcuneiform-dev
Remove libcuneiform-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libcuneiform-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcuneiform-dev
Remove libcuneiform-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcuneiform-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcuneiform-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcuneiform-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.