How To Install stopmotion on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stopmotion on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is stopmotion
stopmotion is:
Create stop-motion animations with images grabbed from a video device, or from image files, or from still images extracted from video. Stopmotion has a set of tools which helps you keep the movements smooth and precise, such as ghosting the last image on a live view of the next image to be acquired.
There are three methods to install stopmotion 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 stopmotion Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stopmotion using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stopmotion
Install stopmotion Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stopmotion using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stopmotion
Install stopmotion 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 stopmotion using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stopmotion
How To Uninstall stopmotion on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the stopmotion package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stopmotion
Uninstall stopmotion And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stopmotion and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stopmotion
Remove stopmotion Configurations and Data
To remove stopmotion configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stopmotion
Remove stopmotion configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stopmotion configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stopmotion
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stopmotion package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
