How To Install posterazor on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install posterazor
on Debian 12.
What is posterazor
posterazor is:
The PosteRazor splits an image to form a multi-page PDF document. When printed, the sheets can be arranged to form a large poster of the original picture. An easy to use (wizard like) user interface guides through 5 simple steps.
It relies upon libfreeimage and libxpm supporting many input file formats such as BMP, GIF, ICO, JPG, PNG, TIFF, XPM among others handled by FreeImage like DDS, Dr. Halo, IFF, JBIG, JPEG/JIF, KOALA, LBM, Kodak PhotoCD, PCX, PBM, PGM, PPM, PhotoShop PSD, Sun RAS, TARGA, WBMP, XBM, etc…
Also, PosteRazor can handle the following image color types: Monochrome, Grayscale, 4 Bit palette, 8 Bit palette, 24 Bit RGB, 48 Bit RGB (only via TIFF and PNG), 32 Bit CMYK (only via TIFF). 32 Bit RGBA images can be loaded, but are transformed to 24 Bit RGB by “merging” them with a white background.
It supports dimension units like m, mm, cm, inch, ft, pt(72th inch) and it prints the PDF output file in A4, A3, Legal, Letter or Tabloid layout.
There are three methods to install posterazor
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install posterazor Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install posterazor
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install posterazor
Install posterazor Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install posterazor
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install posterazor
Install posterazor 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 posterazor
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install posterazor
How To Uninstall posterazor on Debian 12
To uninstall only the posterazor
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove posterazor
Uninstall posterazor And Its Dependencies
To uninstall posterazor
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove posterazor
Remove posterazor Configurations and Data
To remove posterazor
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge posterazor
Remove posterazor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove posterazor
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge posterazor
Dependencies
posterazor have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install posterazor
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.