How To Install mrtdreader on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mrtdreader
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mrtdreader
mrtdreader is:
This program takes as input the content of the machine-readable zone of machine-readable travel documents and then reads out some data and dumps the facial image to a file.
It is the example application delivered together with libmrtd.
Only reader devices which are fully supported by libnfc will work.
There are three methods to install mrtdreader
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 mrtdreader Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mrtdreader
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mrtdreader
Install mrtdreader Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mrtdreader
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mrtdreader
Install mrtdreader 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 mrtdreader
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mrtdreader
How To Uninstall mrtdreader on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mrtdreader
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mrtdreader
Uninstall mrtdreader And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mrtdreader
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mrtdreader
Remove mrtdreader Configurations and Data
To remove mrtdreader
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mrtdreader
Remove mrtdreader configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mrtdreader
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mrtdreader
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mrtdreader
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.