How to Install and Uninstall stiff Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: December 28,2024

1. Install "stiff" package

This guide let you learn how to install stiff on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                stiff
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "stiff" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall stiff on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                stiff
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the stiff package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: stiff
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.4.0-5
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_2.4.0-5_amd64.deb
Size: 61508
MD5sum: 3b9dfcdea75994fccf225dcd36350faa
SHA1: cf238edc58e76ab5e6cf3b4547c2d57de30a9e35
SHA256: 5ef903309d8420fb8aaeea224776b07ef3418537d082b44b061ef3630c468c80
SHA512: 55ab9c529c796ffdef5a9285a07aa4340883a64e424a5619904a4be05eb6c7a0a8fb53a687b5a46882758878a718631fe8feea1cb49fe15fb9b6924f8fc124cf
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:
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* 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