How To Install libvips-tools on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvips-tools on Debian 9. libvips-tools is image processing system good for very large ones (tools)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvips-tools on Debian 9.

What is libvips-tools

libvips-tools 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 several command-line utilities that make it possible to use some vips functionality from shell scripts or the command line.

There are three methods to install libvips-tools on Debian 9. 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-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 libvips-tools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libvips-tools

Install libvips-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libvips-tools

Install libvips-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install libvips-tools

How To Uninstall libvips-tools on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove libvips-tools

Uninstall libvips-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libvips-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvips-tools

Remove libvips-tools Configurations and Data

To remove libvips-tools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libvips-tools

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

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

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

Dependencies

libvips-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvips-tools package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.