How To Install graphicsmagick on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install graphicsmagick
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is graphicsmagick
graphicsmagick is:
GraphicsMagick provides a set of command-line applications to manipulate image files. It is a fork of the ImageMagick project and therefore offers a similar set of features, but puts a larger emphasis on stability.
The tools support a large variety of image formats from the widely used jpeg, tiff, bmp or xpm to special-purpose formats such as fits or image formats found on some photo CDs. They can convert between formats, concatenate several images into one, annotate and distort them, create thumbnails or manipulate the colormap. While all features are available from the command-line, the package also includes an image viewer that allows interactive manipulation.
Note that unlike ImageMagick, the GraphicsMagick tools are accessed through a single executable called ‘gm’. Therefore, GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick can be used in parallel. Install package graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat to obtain a set of several executables that is compatible to ImageMagick’s interface.
There are three methods to install graphicsmagick
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 graphicsmagick Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install graphicsmagick
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install graphicsmagick
Install graphicsmagick Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install graphicsmagick
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install graphicsmagick
Install graphicsmagick 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 graphicsmagick
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install graphicsmagick
How To Uninstall graphicsmagick on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the graphicsmagick
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove graphicsmagick
Uninstall graphicsmagick And Its Dependencies
To uninstall graphicsmagick
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove graphicsmagick
Remove graphicsmagick Configurations and Data
To remove graphicsmagick
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge graphicsmagick
Remove graphicsmagick configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove graphicsmagick
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge graphicsmagick
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install graphicsmagick
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.