How To Install posterazor on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install posterazor on Ubuntu 22.04.
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 Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 22.04
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 Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove posterazor
Remove posterazor Configurations and Data
To remove posterazor configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install posterazor package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
