How To Install synfig on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install synfig
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is synfig
synfig is:
synfig is a vector based 2D animation renderer. It is designed to be capable of producing feature-film quality animation.
This package contains the command-line renderer, for the GUI animation editor, please install synfigstudio.
There are three methods to install synfig
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 synfig Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install synfig
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install synfig
Install synfig Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install synfig
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install synfig
Install synfig 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 synfig
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install synfig
How To Uninstall synfig on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the synfig
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove synfig
Uninstall synfig And Its Dependencies
To uninstall synfig
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove synfig
Remove synfig Configurations and Data
To remove synfig
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge synfig
Remove synfig configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove synfig
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge synfig
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install synfig
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.