How To Install imagemagick-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imagemagick-common on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is imagemagick-common
imagemagick-common is:
imagemagick-common contained the filesystem infrastructure required for further installation of imagemagick in any configuration.
This is a transitional package to help migrate systems to the new imagemagick-6-common package.
This is a dummy package. You can safely purge or remove it.
Package: imagemagick-common Architecture: all 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: 14 Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2) Depends: imagemagick-6-common (= 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11) Filename: pool/universe/i/imagemagick/imagemagick-common_6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11_all.deb Size: 1552 MD5sum: 74073d22c3f484390585a81e3e25e7ff SHA1: f685290e1e4a66a8cc54d177811c9cab684192db SHA256: c899864fa613ec015868fd3450c4ce9a3d7d1123207da060393e8b861a4d2649 Homepage: https://www.imagemagick.org/ Description-en: image manipulation programs – infrastructure dummy package imagemagick-common contained the filesystem infrastructure required for further installation of imagemagick in any configuration.
This is a transitional package to help migrate systems to the new imagemagick-6-common package.
This is a dummy package. You can safely purge or remove it.
There are three methods to install imagemagick-common 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-common 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-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install imagemagick-common
Install imagemagick-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install imagemagick-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install imagemagick-common
Install imagemagick-common 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-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install imagemagick-common
How To Uninstall imagemagick-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the imagemagick-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove imagemagick-common
Uninstall imagemagick-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall imagemagick-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove imagemagick-common
Remove imagemagick-common Configurations and Data
To remove imagemagick-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge imagemagick-common
Remove imagemagick-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove imagemagick-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imagemagick-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imagemagick-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
