How To Install liblensfun1 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 liblensfun1 on Ubuntu.

What is liblensfun1

liblensfun1 is:

Lensfun is an opensource database of photographic lenses and their characteristics. It contains three kinds of objects:

• mounts
• cameras
• lenses

It is used in various photo-related software in which it allows the correction of various artifacts:

• distortion
• transveral (also known as lateral) chromatic aberrations
• vignetting
• colour contribution of the lens (correcting said “yellowish” or “blueish” images)

It provides a way to read and search for specific things in the database.

This package contains the runtime files to access the library.

There are three methods to install liblensfun1 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 liblensfun1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liblensfun1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblensfun1

Install liblensfun1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblensfun1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblensfun1

Install liblensfun1 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 liblensfun1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblensfun1

How To Uninstall liblensfun1 on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the liblensfun1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblensfun1

Uninstall liblensfun1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblensfun1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblensfun1

Remove liblensfun1 Configurations and Data

To remove liblensfun1 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblensfun1

Remove liblensfun1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblensfun1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblensfun1

Dependencies

liblensfun1 have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libglib2.0-0
• libstdc++6
• liblensfun-data-v1

References

• liblensfun1 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblensfun1 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.