How To Install engauge-digitizer on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install engauge-digitizer on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is engauge-digitizer
engauge-digitizer is:
The Engauge Digitizer tool assists in interactively extracting numbers from images of graphs. Conceptually, it is thus the opposite of a graphing tool that converts data points to graphs. It provides assistance in enhancing the image quality and matching the data points. Engauge Digitizer is used by individuals such as grad students and researchers as well engineers and employees in large government and commercial organizations for processing single files but also managing databases of thousands of image files.
Features of Engauge Digitizer include: * Automatic grid line removal * Automatic point and axis matching * Automatic curve tracing * Image processing for separating important details from background information * A wizard providing an interactive tutorial to explain the basic steps * Multiple coordinate systems in the same image can be digitized in advanced mode * Cubic spline interpolation between points gives more accurate curves with fewer points * Handling of Cartesian, polar, linear and logarithmic graphs * Support for drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste * Context sensitive help, user manual and tutorials explaining every feature * Preview windows to give immediate feedback while modifying settings * Automated line and point extraction to rapidly digitizes data
There are three methods to install engauge-digitizer 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 engauge-digitizer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install engauge-digitizer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install engauge-digitizer
Install engauge-digitizer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install engauge-digitizer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install engauge-digitizer
Install engauge-digitizer 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 engauge-digitizer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install engauge-digitizer
How To Uninstall engauge-digitizer on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the engauge-digitizer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove engauge-digitizer
Uninstall engauge-digitizer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall engauge-digitizer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove engauge-digitizer
Remove engauge-digitizer Configurations and Data
To remove engauge-digitizer configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge engauge-digitizer
Remove engauge-digitizer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove engauge-digitizer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge engauge-digitizer
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install engauge-digitizer package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
