How To Install libtesseract5 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtesseract5
on Debian 12.
What is libtesseract5
libtesseract5 is:
Tesseract is an open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Engine. It can be used directly, or (for programmers) using an API to extract printed text from images. It supports a wide variety of languages. This package includes the shared library.
There are three methods to install libtesseract5
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libtesseract5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libtesseract5
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libtesseract5
Install libtesseract5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libtesseract5
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libtesseract5
Install libtesseract5 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 libtesseract5
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libtesseract5
How To Uninstall libtesseract5 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libtesseract5
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libtesseract5
Uninstall libtesseract5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libtesseract5
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtesseract5
Remove libtesseract5 Configurations and Data
To remove libtesseract5
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libtesseract5
Remove libtesseract5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libtesseract5
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtesseract5
Dependencies
libtesseract5 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtesseract5
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.