How To Install libcuneiform0 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcuneiform0 on Ubuntu 18.04. libcuneiform0 is multi-language OCR system (shared library)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcuneiform0 on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libcuneiform0

libcuneiform0 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 shared library.

There are three methods to install libcuneiform0 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 libcuneiform0 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libcuneiform0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libcuneiform0

Install libcuneiform0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libcuneiform0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libcuneiform0

Install libcuneiform0 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 libcuneiform0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libcuneiform0

How To Uninstall libcuneiform0 on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libcuneiform0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libcuneiform0

Uninstall libcuneiform0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libcuneiform0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcuneiform0

Remove libcuneiform0 Configurations and Data

To remove libcuneiform0 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libcuneiform0

Remove libcuneiform0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libcuneiform0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcuneiform0

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcuneiform0 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.