How To Install wand-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install wand-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. wand-doc is Python interface for ImageMagick library - documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wand-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is wand-doc

wand-doc is:

Wand is a ctypes-based simple ImageMagick binding for Python. It doesn’t cover all functionalities of MagickWand API currently.

Wand provides Pythonic and modern interfaces, good documentation, binding through ctypes (which works on PyPy) and installation using pip or easy_install.

This package includes documentation for Wand.

There are three methods to install wand-doc 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 wand-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install wand-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install wand-doc

Install wand-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install wand-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install wand-doc

Install wand-doc 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 wand-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wand-doc

How To Uninstall wand-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the wand-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove wand-doc

Uninstall wand-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall wand-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wand-doc

Remove wand-doc Configurations and Data

To remove wand-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wand-doc

Remove wand-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove wand-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wand-doc

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wand-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.