How To Install hdfview on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hdfview
on Debian 9.
What is hdfview
hdfview is:
HDF is a versatile data model that can represent very complex data objects and a wide variety of metadata. It is a completely portable file format with no limit on the number or size of data objects in the collection.
This package provides a HDF4/HDF5 viewer.
There are three methods to install hdfview
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hdfview Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hdfview
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hdfview
Install hdfview Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hdfview
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hdfview
Install hdfview Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install hdfview
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hdfview
How To Uninstall hdfview on Debian 9
To uninstall only the hdfview
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hdfview
Uninstall hdfview And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hdfview
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hdfview
Remove hdfview Configurations and Data
To remove hdfview
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hdfview
Remove hdfview configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hdfview
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hdfview
Dependencies
hdfview have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hdfview
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.