How To Install nip2 on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nip2 on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is nip2
nip2 is:
nip2 is a graphical front end to the VIPS package.
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. This package supplies the graphical interface.
With nip2, rather than directly editing images, you build relationships between objects in a spreadsheet-like fashion. When you make a change somewhere, nip2 recalculates the objects affected by that change. Since it is demand-driven this update is very fast, even for very, very large images. nip2 is very good at creating pipelines of image manipulation operations. It is not very good for image editing tasks like touching up photographs. For that, a tool like the GIMP should be used instead.
There are three methods to install nip2 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 nip2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nip2 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nip2
Install nip2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nip2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nip2
Install nip2 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 nip2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nip2
How To Uninstall nip2 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the nip2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nip2
Uninstall nip2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nip2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nip2
Remove nip2 Configurations and Data
To remove nip2 configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nip2
Remove nip2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nip2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nip2
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nip2 package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
