How To Install perlmagick 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 perlmagick on Ubuntu.
What is perlmagick
perlmagick is:
PerlMagick is an objected-oriented Perl interface to ImageMagick. Use the module to read, manipulate, or write an image or image sequence from within a Perl script. This makes it very suitable for Web CGI scripts.
This is a transitional package to help migrate systems to the new libimage-magick-perl perl library.
This is a dummy package. You can safely purge or remove it.
There are three methods to install perlmagick 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 perlmagick Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install perlmagick using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install perlmagick
Install perlmagick Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install perlmagick using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install perlmagick
Install perlmagick 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 perlmagick using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install perlmagick
How To Uninstall perlmagick on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the perlmagick package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove perlmagick
Uninstall perlmagick And Its Dependencies
To uninstall perlmagick and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove perlmagick
Remove perlmagick Configurations and Data
To remove perlmagick configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge perlmagick
Remove perlmagick configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove perlmagick configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge perlmagick
Dependencies
perlmagick have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perlmagick package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.