How to Install and Uninstall stiff Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 21,2024

1. Install "stiff" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install stiff on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall stiff on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: stiff
Priority: optional
Section: universe/science
Installed-Size: 222
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Astronomy Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.4.0-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libtiff5 (>= 4.0.3)
Filename: pool/universe/s/stiff/stiff_2.4.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 57630
MD5sum: b8ff9301ea4cb801141ccf2c77d99b13
SHA1: d7c8a079a386b0ad0b41a3c53933c026c3ee7b68
SHA256: fde72f7e4582b801e2337849a618a6346ad03038c7fe7eb219bb3afd249f8a91
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
Homepage: http://www.astromatic.net/software/stiff
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu