How To Install cimg-doc on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install cimg-doc on Ubuntu 22.04. cimg-doc is documentation of cimg-dev imaging library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cimg-doc on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is cimg-doc

cimg-doc is:

The CImg Library is a C++ toolkit providing simple classes and functions to load, save, process and display images in your own C++ code. It consists only of a single header file CImg.h that must be included in your program source. It contains useful image processing algorithms for loading/saving, resizing/rotating, filtering, object drawing (text, lines, faces, ellipses, …), etc.

Images are instantiated by a class able to represent images up to 4-dimension wide (from 1-D scalar signals to 3-D volumes of vector-valued pixels), with template pixel types. It depends on a minimal number of libraries : you can compile it with only standard C libraries. No need for exotic libraries and complex dependencies.

This package contains the documentation.

There are three methods to install cimg-doc 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 cimg-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install cimg-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install cimg-doc

Install cimg-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install cimg-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cimg-doc

Install cimg-doc 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 cimg-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cimg-doc

How To Uninstall cimg-doc on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the cimg-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cimg-doc

Uninstall cimg-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cimg-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cimg-doc

Remove cimg-doc Configurations and Data

To remove cimg-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cimg-doc

Remove cimg-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove cimg-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cimg-doc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cimg-doc package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.