How To Install imagination on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imagination
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is imagination
imagination is:
Imagination is a lightweight and user-friendly DVD slide show maker with a clean interface and few dependencies. It only requires the ffmpeg encoder to produce a movie to be burned with another application.
Imagination has the following features:
- Easy to operate.
- It can make a slideshow from photos selected by user.
- Support to VOB (DVD Video), OGV (Theora Vorbis), FLV (Flash Video) and 3GP (Mobile Phones) when exporting videos.
- Support screen resolutions from 128x96 pixels up to 1920x1080 pixels, when exporting videos.
- Background audio (music, as MP3 files, or other audio files).
- Auto resize (optional) for images.
- Allow the users to select a background color.
- Over 50 transition effects.
- Zoom effect with duration time.
- Allow users to add explanatory texts (e.g. subtitles).
Imagination can be used to make presentations to be shown by a projector or by a smart TV.
There are three methods to install imagination
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install imagination Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install imagination
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install imagination
Install imagination Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install imagination
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install imagination
Install imagination 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 imagination
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install imagination
How To Uninstall imagination on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the imagination
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove imagination
Uninstall imagination And Its Dependencies
To uninstall imagination
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove imagination
Remove imagination Configurations and Data
To remove imagination
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge imagination
Remove imagination configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove imagination
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imagination
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imagination
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.