How To Install poster 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 poster on Ubuntu.
What is poster
poster is:
Poster takes a one-page PostScript file and scales it to a specified size. It can tile the resulting image into multiple smaller pages that can be pasted together to form the big poster. Poster prefers EPS as its input although freer forms of PostScript are also understood.
There are three methods to install poster 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 poster Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install poster using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install poster
Install poster Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install poster using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install poster
Install poster 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 poster using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install poster
How To Uninstall poster on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the poster package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove poster
Uninstall poster And Its Dependencies
To uninstall poster and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove poster
Remove poster Configurations and Data
To remove poster configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge poster
Remove poster configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove poster configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge poster
Dependencies
poster have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install poster package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.