How To Install openimageio-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openimageio-tools
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is openimageio-tools
openimageio-tools is:
OpenImageIO is a library for reading and writing images, and a bunch of related classes, utilities, and applications. Main features include:
Extremely simple but powerful ImageInput and ImageOutput APIs for reading and writing 2D images that is format agnostic – that is, a “client app” doesn’t need to know the details about any particular image file formats. Specific formats are implemented by DLL/DSO plugins.
Format plugins for TIFF, JPEG/JFIF, OpenEXR, PNG, HDR/RGBE, Targa, JPEG-2000, DPX, Cineon, FITS, BMP, ICO, RMan Zfile, Softimage PIC, DDS, SGI, PNM/PPM/PGM/PBM, Field3d, WebP. More coming! The plugins are really good at understanding all the strange corners of the image formats, and are very careful about preserving image metadata (including Exif, GPS, and IPTC data).
An ImageCache class that transparently manages a cache so that it can access truly vast amounts of image data (thousands of image files totaling hundreds of GB) very efficiently using only a tiny amount (tens of megabytes at most) of runtime memory. Additionally, a TextureSystem class provides filtered MIP-map texture lookups, atop the nice caching behavior of ImageCache.
Several image tools based on these classes, including iinfo (print detailed info about images), iconvert (convert among formats, data types, or modify metadata), idiff (compare images),igrep (search images for matching metadata). Because these tools are based on ImageInput/ImageOutput, they work with any image formats for which ImageIO plugins are available.
A really nice image viewer, iv, also based on OpenImageIO classes (and so will work with any formats for which plugins are available).
Supported on Linux, OS X, and Windows.
All available under the BSD license, so you may modify it and use it in both open source or proprietary apps.
This package contains command line tools, including iv image viewer.
There are three methods to install openimageio-tools
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install openimageio-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 openimageio-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openimageio-tools
Install openimageio-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openimageio-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openimageio-tools
Install openimageio-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 openimageio-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openimageio-tools
How To Uninstall openimageio-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the openimageio-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openimageio-tools
Uninstall openimageio-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openimageio-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openimageio-tools
Remove openimageio-tools Configurations and Data
To remove openimageio-tools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openimageio-tools
Remove openimageio-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openimageio-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openimageio-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openimageio-tools
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.