How To Install libgd-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgd-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libgd-tools
libgd-tools is:
GD is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colours, cut and paste from other images, flood fills, and write out the result as a PNG file. This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications, where PNG is one of the formats accepted for inline images by most browsers.
This is some simple command line tools and example code that use the GD graphics library.
There are three methods to install libgd-tools 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 libgd-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libgd-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libgd-tools
Install libgd-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libgd-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libgd-tools
Install libgd-tools 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 libgd-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libgd-tools
How To Uninstall libgd-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libgd-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libgd-tools
Uninstall libgd-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libgd-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgd-tools
Remove libgd-tools Configurations and Data
To remove libgd-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libgd-tools
Remove libgd-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libgd-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgd-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgd-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
