How To Install imagemagick-6.q16 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imagemagick-6.q16 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is imagemagick-6.q16
imagemagick-6.q16 is:
ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves. All manipulations can be achieved through shell commands as well as through an X11 graphical interface (display).
For working with the SVG, WMF, OpenEXR, DjVu and Graphviz formats, you need to install the libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra package.
This version of imagemagick is compiled for a channel depth of 16 bits (Q16). Task: ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-graphics
Package: imagemagick-6.q16 Architecture: amd64 Version: 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/graphics Source: imagemagick Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: ImageMagick Packaging Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 757 Provides: imagemagick, imagemagick-6.defaultquantum Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libmagickcore-6.q16-6 (>= 8:6.9.10.2), libmagickwand-6.q16-6 (>= 8:6.9.10.2), hicolor-icon-theme Recommends: libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra, ghostscript, netpbm Suggests: imagemagick-doc, autotrace, cups-bsd | lpr | lprng, curl, enscript, ffmpeg, gimp, gnuplot, grads, graphviz, groff-base, hp2xx, html2ps, libwmf-bin, mplayer, povray, radiance, sane-utils, texlive-base-bin, transfig, ufraw-batch, xdg-utils Breaks: libmagickcore-dev (« 8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-2~) Replaces: imagemagick (« 8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-2~) Filename: pool/universe/i/imagemagick/imagemagick-6.q16_6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11_amd64.deb Size: 427156 MD5sum: 8cbec5355cfc1938c7f63f1cfc0b9ab6 SHA1: 45156d6b93bd584c6db05ca64303f66239735827 SHA256: 2b99782ed8e6b85021897094468802ddf99d4e9f1593b46d56dc16e1ba603d61 Homepage: https://www.imagemagick.org/ Description-en: image manipulation programs – quantum depth Q16 ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves. All manipulations can be achieved through shell commands as well as through an X11 graphical interface (display).
For working with the SVG, WMF, OpenEXR, DjVu and Graphviz formats, you need to install the libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra package.
This version of imagemagick is compiled for a channel depth of 16 bits (Q16). Task: ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-graphics
There are three methods to install imagemagick-6.q16 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 imagemagick-6.q16 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install imagemagick-6.q16 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install imagemagick-6.q16
Install imagemagick-6.q16 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install imagemagick-6.q16 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install imagemagick-6.q16
Install imagemagick-6.q16 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 imagemagick-6.q16 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install imagemagick-6.q16
How To Uninstall imagemagick-6.q16 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the imagemagick-6.q16 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove imagemagick-6.q16
Uninstall imagemagick-6.q16 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall imagemagick-6.q16 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove imagemagick-6.q16
Remove imagemagick-6.q16 Configurations and Data
To remove imagemagick-6.q16 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge imagemagick-6.q16
Remove imagemagick-6.q16 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove imagemagick-6.q16 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imagemagick-6.q16
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imagemagick-6.q16 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
