How To Install yorick-imutil on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install yorick-imutil on Debian 9. yorick-imutil is fast image manipulation routines for the Yorick language

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yorick-imutil on Debian 9.

What is yorick-imutil

yorick-imutil is:

Compiled routines for basic but fast image manipulation in yorick (an interpreted computer language specialized for numerical and scientific problems). Includes 2d bilinear and spline2 interpolation, clipping, 2d dist generator, binning, image rotation, cartesian to polar coordinate transform, gaussian and poisson random generator, fast sort and fast median. All of these functions, with the exceptions of spline2, exist in yorick or the yutils package, but these versions are 2 to 10x faster, being specialized for 2d arrays (hence the name imutil). This plugin is 64bits safe.

There are three methods to install yorick-imutil 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 yorick-imutil Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install yorick-imutil

Install yorick-imutil Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install yorick-imutil

Install yorick-imutil 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 yorick-imutil using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install yorick-imutil

How To Uninstall yorick-imutil on Debian 9

To uninstall only the yorick-imutil package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove yorick-imutil

Uninstall yorick-imutil And Its Dependencies

To uninstall yorick-imutil and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove yorick-imutil

Remove yorick-imutil Configurations and Data

To remove yorick-imutil configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge yorick-imutil

Remove yorick-imutil configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yorick-imutil

Dependencies

yorick-imutil have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install yorick-imutil package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.