How to Install and Uninstall stiff Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 21,2024

1. Install "stiff" package

This tutorial shows how to install stiff on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
    Copied


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                sudo apt install
            
                        
                stiff
            
                    
    
    Copied

2. Uninstall "stiff" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall stiff on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                stiff
            
                    
    
    Copied


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
    Copied

3. Information about the stiff package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: stiff
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.4.0-4
Priority: optional
Section: universe/science
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Astronomy Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 206
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libtiff5 (>= 4.0.3)
Filename: pool/universe/s/stiff/stiff_2.4.0-4_amd64.deb
Size: 61412
MD5sum: 84d6a920bcca537be80ca60a63ebdeda
SHA1: 89f609e2a81503c266a9ed25b6b1abcb10aaf383
SHA256: 7e55f9c1415d32ae787f9bc457303875556c4f51d4bd6abc6b0e693322e4a502
SHA512: 77b48ad50aebc18eb9a33f7ca7aef571ced3253ba2cc8cebf2b660f28885312cb3494f23b1275629a6cbe7bdb98756c87da21eb3c1ca02eed5361198e9674ee6
Homepage: https://www.astromatic.net/software/stiff
Description-en: convert scientific FITS images to the TIFF format
STIFF is a program that converts scientific FITS images to the TIFF format
for illustration purposes. The main features of STIFF are:
.
* Accurate reproduction of the original surface brightnesses and colours
* Automatic or manual contrast and brightness adjustments
* Automatic sky background intensity and colour balance
* Adjustable colour saturation
* Colour-friendly gamma correction capabilities
* One or three input channels: gray-scale or true colour output
* Output with 8 or 16 bits per component
* Pixel rebinning and x/y flip options
* Support for arbitrarily large input and output images on standard
hardware (BigTIFF support)
* Support for tiled, multiresolution pyramids
* Support for lossless and lossy compression methods
* Multi-threaded code with load-balancing to take advantage of multiple
cores and processors.
* XML VOTable-compliant output of meta-data.
Description-md5: cc5516ce019c76d247f0b99e6b930675