How To Install libvips-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvips-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libvips-dev
libvips-dev is:
VIPS is an image processing system designed with efficiency in mind. It is good with large images (ones that larger than the amount of RAM in your machine), and for working with colour. It can perform many image manipulation tasks much faster than other packages such as ImageMagick and the GIMP and includes some special features such as creating single “mosaic” images from multiple parts.
VIPS consists of two main components: an image processing library with some command-line tools and a spreadsheet-like graphical user interface. The graphical interface is available in the nip2 package.
This package includes all development files needed to compile applications that use the vips library.
There are three methods to install libvips-dev 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 libvips-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libvips-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvips-dev
Install libvips-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvips-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvips-dev
Install libvips-dev 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 libvips-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvips-dev
How To Uninstall libvips-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libvips-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvips-dev
Uninstall libvips-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvips-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvips-dev
Remove libvips-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libvips-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvips-dev
Remove libvips-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvips-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvips-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvips-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
