How To Install cuneiform-common on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cuneiform-common on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is cuneiform-common
cuneiform-common is:
Cuneiform is an OCR system. In addition to text recognition it also does layout analysis and text format recognition.
The following languages are supported: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.
This package contains the common files.
There are three methods to install cuneiform-common 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 cuneiform-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cuneiform-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cuneiform-common
Install cuneiform-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cuneiform-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cuneiform-common
Install cuneiform-common 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 cuneiform-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cuneiform-common
How To Uninstall cuneiform-common on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the cuneiform-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cuneiform-common
Uninstall cuneiform-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cuneiform-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cuneiform-common
Remove cuneiform-common Configurations and Data
To remove cuneiform-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cuneiform-common
Remove cuneiform-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cuneiform-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cuneiform-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cuneiform-common package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
