How To Install stiff on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stiff
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is stiff
stiff is:
STIFF is a program that converts scientific FITS images to the TIFF format for illustration purposes. The main features of STIFF are:
- Accurate reproduction of the original surface brightnesses and colours
- Automatic or manual contrast and brightness adjustments
- Automatic sky background intensity and colour balance
- Adjustable colour saturation
- Colour-friendly gamma correction capabilities
- One or three input channels: gray-scale or true colour output
- Output with 8 or 16 bits per component
- Pixel rebinning and x/y flip options
- Support for arbitrarily large input and output images on standard hardware (BigTIFF support)
- Support for tiled, multiresolution pyramids
- Support for lossless and lossy compression methods
- Multi-threaded code with load-balancing to take advantage of multiple cores and processors.
- XML VOTable-compliant output of meta-data.
There are three methods to install stiff
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 stiff Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stiff
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stiff
Install stiff Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stiff
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stiff
Install stiff 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 stiff
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stiff
How To Uninstall stiff on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the stiff
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stiff
Uninstall stiff And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stiff
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stiff
Remove stiff Configurations and Data
To remove stiff
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stiff
Remove stiff configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stiff
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stiff
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stiff
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.