Installation

The Aspose.Imaging for Python via .NET package comes with the .NET libraries it needs, so a separate .NET installation is not required. However, depending on your platform, you may have to install specific dependencies for .NET and meet certain requirements.

Windows

System Requirements

Check and confirm that your machine’s specifications meet or better the system requirements.

Install Aspose.Imaging

pip is the easiest way to download and install Aspose.Imaging for Python via .NET on Windows devices or pip3 in Linux.

To install Aspose.Imaging, run this command:
pip install aspose-imaging-python-net or pip3 install aspose-imaging-python-net

Working in Non-Windows Environment

As Aspose.Imaging for Python via .NET based on .NET Core 6.0 platform, so it can be used in Core Applications running in Linux like operating systems. We are constantly working over improving the .NET Core support in our API. However, there are some following operations which we recommend our customers to perform, in order to get better results while using features of Aspose.Imaging for Python via .NET:

Please install:

libgdiplus package
libc6-dev package
package with Microsoft compatible fonts: ttf-mscorefonts-installer. (e.g. sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer)

How to check

The version of GLIBC Please execute

ldd --version

Output

….. ldd (GNU libc) 2.17 ….. The version of GLIBC must be >= 2.17

The version of dotnet platform Please execute

dotnet --list-runtimes

Output

…. Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.xxx [/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App] ….

The version of NETCore.App must be >= 6.0

If the dotnet command is not found, you need to install dotnet-sdk-6.0 package.

Ubuntu Linux

sudo apt-get install -y libssl1.1 wget python3 python3-pip
wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/<your version>/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb && rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
sudo apt-get install -y libgdiplus libfontconfig1 xfonts-utils
sudo apt-get install -y ttf-mscorefonts-installer
pip3 install wheel
pip3 install aspose-imaging-python-net

Known issue

In Ubuntu 22.04, sometimes the following error could be faced

No useable version of libssl

To resolve, the following steps need to be done

Download the file libssl1.0-dev_1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.13_amd64.deb from http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl1.0/
Install it by the command dpkg -i libssl1.0-dev_1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.13_amd64.deb

Example:

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl1.0/libssl1.0-dev_1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.13_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i ./libssl1.0-dev_1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.13_amd64.deb
rm ./libssl1.0-dev_1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.13_amd64.deb

CentOS 7

rpm -Uvh https://packages.microsoft.com/config/centos/7/packages-microsoft-prod.rpm
yum update -y
yum install -y python3.8 python3-pip dotnet-sdk-6.0
yum install -y epel-release
yum install -y libgdiplus
yum groupinstall -y "fonts"
pip3 install wheel
pip3 install aspose-imaging-python-net

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