Download, build and install a specific version of libvips from source (Ubuntu)

install_vips.sh

#/bin/bash

set -ex

VERSION="8.8.4"
# or: VERSION="$1"

if [ "$VERSION" = "" ]
then
  echo "no version specified" >&2
  exit 1
fi

sudo apt install -y build-essential pkg-config glib2.0-dev libexpat1-dev \
  libtiff5-dev libjpeg-turbo8-dev libgsf-1-dev

BASENAME="vips-$VERSION"
TARFILE="$BASENAME.tar.gz"

if [ ! -f "$TARFILE" ]
then
  echo "Download vips $VERSION"
  curl -fL --out "$TARFILE" "https://github.com/libvips/libvips/releases/download/v$VERSION/vips-$VERSION.tar.gz"
fi

rm -rf "$BASENAME"
tar xf "$TARFILE"

PREV_WD=$(pwd)

cd "$BASENAME"

./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

cd $PREV_WD