How To Install imv 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 imv on Ubuntu.

What is `imv`

imv is:

imv is a command line image viewer for X11 and Wayland aimed at users of tiling window managers. It has native Wayland and X11 support and can handle dozens of image formats, including: PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF, SVG, HEIF.

The package provides the imv-x11 and x11-wayland binaries. The imv wrapper script is installed in /usr/libexec/imv/ due to a file name clash.

There are three methods to install imv 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 imv Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install imv

Install imv Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install imv using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install imv

Install imv 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 imv using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install imv

How To Uninstall imv on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the imv package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove imv

Uninstall imv And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove imv

Remove imv Configurations and Data

To remove imv configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge imv

Remove imv configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imv

Dependencies

imv have the following dependencies:

References

imv website

Summary

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