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Install cuneiform on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install cuneiform

Learn how to install cuneiform with the command sudo apt-get install cuneiform on Ubuntus.

Quick installation of cuneiform:

Step 1: Update system:

sudo apt-get update

Step 2: Install: cuneiform

Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:

sudo apt-get install cuneiform

Package Details

Package:cuneiform
Version:1.1.0+dfsg-2
Maintainer:Ubuntu Developers
Home page:http://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux/
Description:multi-language OCR system Cuneiform is an OCR system. In addition to text recognition it also does layout analysis and text format recognition. . The following languages are supported: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. Multi-Arch: foreign Homepage: http://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux/
Distro:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release:
Repo/Section:multiverse/graphics

How to install cuneiform on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

First of all update your system with the command:

sudo apt-get update

Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.

After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.

If cuneiform is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L cuneiform' will give followin error.

deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L cuneiform
Package `cuneiform' is not installed.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ 

Installing cuneiform:

After system update use the following command to install cuneiform:

sudo apt-get install cuneiform

Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.

How to uninstall/remove cuneiform from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the cuneiform from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.

To remove the cuneiform following command is used:

sudo apt-get remove  cuneiform

Following command is used to remove the cuneiform package along with its dependencies:

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove cuneiform

This will remove cuneiform and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.

Completely removing cuneiform with all configuration files:

Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:

sudo apt-get purge cuneiform

or you can use following command also:

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove cuneiform

Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with cuneiform package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.

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