How To Install imview 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 imview on Ubuntu.

What is `imview`

imview is:

Imview is an application which

Displays a large number of image formats.
Displays 2D or 3D (as slices) images with a very good zoom and pan feature.
Works with multi-spectral, time series or multi-page documents (e.g.: Satellite images, TIFF stacks, animated GIFs and heterogeneous multi-component files).
Displays all pixel types (1-bit to 64-bit data, integer or floating point).
Arbitrary 1-D profile of 2-D images (or of 2-D slices of 3-D images) can be displayed.
Has support for arbitrary colourmaps for all pixel types (i.e.: false colour display).
Has standard image manipulation facilities (brightness/contrast, gamma, zoom, crop, rotation, etc).
Can be controlled remotely via sockets and text commands (for easy integration into various image analysis systems).
Images can be uploaded into Imview via sockets or shared memory.
And much more!

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install imview

Install imview Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install imview

Install imview 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 imview using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install imview

How To Uninstall imview on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove imview

Uninstall imview And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove imview

Remove imview Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge imview

Remove imview configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imview

Dependencies

imview have the following dependencies:

References

imview website

Summary

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