How To Install tkpng on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tkpng
on Debian 9.
What is tkpng
tkpng is:
TkPNG is an open source binary package that adds PNG photo image support to Tcl/Tk. Although other extensions such as Img also add support for PNG images, this package was designed to be lightweight, not depending on libpng nor implementing other image formats, and suitable for inclusion in the Tk core.
There are three methods to install tkpng
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tkpng Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tkpng
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tkpng
Install tkpng Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tkpng
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tkpng
Install tkpng 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install tkpng
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tkpng
How To Uninstall tkpng on Debian 9
To uninstall only the tkpng
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tkpng
Uninstall tkpng And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tkpng
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tkpng
Remove tkpng Configurations and Data
To remove tkpng
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tkpng
Remove tkpng configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tkpng
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tkpng
Dependencies
tkpng have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tkpng
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.