How To Install stopmotion 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 stopmotion on Ubuntu.

What is `stopmotion`

stopmotion is:

Create stop-motion animations with images grabbed from a video device, or from image files, or from still images extracted from video. Stopmotion has a set of tools which helps you keep the movements smooth and precise, such as ghosting the last image on a live view of the next image to be acquired.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install stopmotion

Install stopmotion Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install stopmotion

Install stopmotion 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 stopmotion using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install stopmotion

How To Uninstall stopmotion on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove stopmotion

Uninstall stopmotion And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove stopmotion

Remove stopmotion Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge stopmotion

Remove stopmotion configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stopmotion

Dependencies

stopmotion have the following dependencies:

References

stopmotion website

Summary

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