How To Install ruby-vips on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-vips
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is ruby-vips
ruby-vips is:
This package provides a binding for the vips image processing library. It is extremely fast and it can process huge images without loading the whole image in memory.
There are three methods to install ruby-vips
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 ruby-vips Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-vips
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-vips
Install ruby-vips Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-vips
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-vips
Install ruby-vips 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 ruby-vips
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-vips
How To Uninstall ruby-vips on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the ruby-vips
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-vips
Uninstall ruby-vips And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-vips
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-vips
Remove ruby-vips Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-vips
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-vips
Remove ruby-vips configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-vips
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-vips
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-vips
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.