How to install mcomix on Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak)?

In this article we are going to learn the commands and steps to install mcomix package on Ubuntu 16.10.


 

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Quick installation of mcomix:

Step 1: Update system:

	sudo apt-get update

Step 2: Install: mcomix

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

	sudo apt-get install mcomix

Package Details

Package:mcomix
Version:1.2.1-1
Maintainer:Ubuntu Developers
Home page:http://mcomix.sourceforge.net/
Description:GTK+ image viewer for comic books MComix is an user-friendly, customizable image viewer. It is specifically designed to handle comic books, but also serves as a generic viewer. It reads images in ZIP, RAR, 7Zip or tar archives as well as plain image files. It is written in Python and uses GTK+ through the PyGTK bindings, and runs on both Linux and Windows. . MComix is a fork of the Comix project, and aims to add bug fixes and stability improvements after Comix development came to a halt in late 2009.
Distro:Ubuntu 16.10
Release:
Repo/Section:universe/x11

How to install mcomix on Ubuntu 16.10?

First of all update your system with the command:

sudo apt-get update

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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 16.10 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 mcomix is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L mcomix' will give followin error.

deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L mcomix
dpkg-query: package 'mcomix' 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 mcomix:

After system update use the following command to install mcomix:

sudo apt-get install mcomix

Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 16.10 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 mcomix from Ubuntu 16.10?

Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the mcomix from Ubuntu 16.10. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.

To remove the mcomix following command is used:

sudo apt-get remove  mcomix

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

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove mcomix

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

Completely removing mcomix with all configuration files:

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

sudo apt-get purge mcomix

or you can use following command also:

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove mcomix

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