How To Install openimageio-tools 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 openimageio-tools on Ubuntu.

What is `openimageio-tools`

openimageio-tools is:

OpenImageIO is a library for reading and writing images, and a bunch of related classes, utilities, and applications. Main features include:

Extremely simple but powerful ImageInput and ImageOutput APIs for reading and writing 2D images that is format agnostic – that is, a “client app” doesn’t need to know the details about any particular image file formats. Specific formats are implemented by DLL/DSO plugins.
Format plugins for TIFF, JPEG/JFIF, OpenEXR, PNG, HDR/RGBE, Targa, JPEG-2000, DPX, Cineon, FITS, BMP, ICO, RMan Zfile, Softimage PIC, DDS, SGI, PNM/PPM/PGM/PBM, Field3d, WebP. More coming! The plugins are really good at understanding all the strange corners of the image formats, and are very careful about preserving image metadata (including Exif, GPS, and IPTC data).
An ImageCache class that transparently manages a cache so that it can access truly vast amounts of image data (thousands of image files totaling hundreds of GB) very efficiently using only a tiny amount (tens of megabytes at most) of runtime memory. Additionally, a TextureSystem class provides filtered MIP-map texture lookups, atop the nice caching behavior of ImageCache.
Several image tools based on these classes, including iinfo (print detailed info about images), iconvert (convert among formats, data types, or modify metadata), idiff (compare images),igrep (search images for matching metadata). Because these tools are based on ImageInput/ImageOutput, they work with any image formats for which ImageIO plugins are available.
A really nice image viewer, iv, also based on OpenImageIO classes (and so will work with any formats for which plugins are available).
Supported on Linux, OS X, and Windows.
All available under the BSD license, so you may modify it and use it in both open source or proprietary apps.

This package contains command line tools, including iv image viewer.

There are three methods to install openimageio-tools 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 openimageio-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install openimageio-tools

Install openimageio-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install openimageio-tools

Install openimageio-tools 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 openimageio-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install openimageio-tools

How To Uninstall openimageio-tools on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the openimageio-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove openimageio-tools

Uninstall openimageio-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove openimageio-tools

Remove openimageio-tools Configurations and Data

To remove openimageio-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge openimageio-tools

Remove openimageio-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openimageio-tools

Dependencies

openimageio-tools have the following dependencies:

References

openimageio-tools website

Summary

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