How To Install php-image-text on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install php-image-text on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is php-image-text
php-image-text is:
Image_Text provides a comfortable interface to text manipulations in GD images. Beside common Freetype2 functionality it offers to handle texts in a graphic- or office-tool like way. For example it allows alignment of texts inside a text box, rotation (around the top left corner of a text box or it’s center point) and the automatic measurizement of the optimal font size for a given text box.
There are three methods to install php-image-text 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 php-image-text Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install php-image-text using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install php-image-text
Install php-image-text Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install php-image-text using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install php-image-text
Install php-image-text 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 php-image-text using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install php-image-text
How To Uninstall php-image-text on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the php-image-text package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove php-image-text
Uninstall php-image-text And Its Dependencies
To uninstall php-image-text and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove php-image-text
Remove php-image-text Configurations and Data
To remove php-image-text configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge php-image-text
Remove php-image-text configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove php-image-text configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge php-image-text
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install php-image-text package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
