How To Install astcenc on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install astcenc on Ubuntu.
What is astcenc
astcenc is:
The Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) format, developed by Arm® and AMD, has been adopted as an official extension to the Open GL®, OpenGL ES, and Vulkan® graphics APIs. It provides a major step forward both in terms of image quality at a given bitrate, and in terms of the format and bitrate flexibility available to content creators. This allows more assets to use compression, often at a reduced bitrate compared to legacy formats, reducing memory bandwidth and energy consumption.
This package provides the command-line tool to compress and decompress images.
There are three methods to install astcenc on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install astcenc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install astcenc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install astcenc
Install astcenc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install astcenc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install astcenc
Install astcenc 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 astcenc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install astcenc
How To Uninstall astcenc on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the astcenc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove astcenc
Uninstall astcenc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall astcenc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove astcenc
Remove astcenc Configurations and Data
To remove astcenc configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge astcenc
Remove astcenc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove astcenc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge astcenc
Dependencies
astcenc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install astcenc package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.