How To Install libvips-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvips-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. libvips-doc is image processing system good for very large ones (doc)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvips-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libvips-doc

libvips-doc is:

VIPS is an image processing system designed with efficiency in mind. It is good with large images (ones that larger than the amount of RAM in your machine), and for working with colour. It can perform many image manipulation tasks much faster than other packages such as ImageMagick and the GIMP and includes some special features such as creating single “mosaic” images from multiple parts.

VIPS consists of two main components: an image processing library with some command-line tools and a spreadsheet-like graphical user interface. The graphical interface is available in the nip2 package.

This package includes complete documentation for the VIPS system. It includes the application programmers’ guide, the library programmers' guide, the C++ programmers’ guide, and the reference guide, as well as HTML versions of the program and library manual pages.

There are three methods to install libvips-doc 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 libvips-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libvips-doc

Install libvips-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libvips-doc

Install libvips-doc 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 libvips-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libvips-doc

How To Uninstall libvips-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libvips-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libvips-doc

Uninstall libvips-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvips-doc

Remove libvips-doc Configurations and Data

To remove libvips-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libvips-doc

Remove libvips-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvips-doc

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Summary

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