How To Install libgyoto7 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgyoto7 on Debian 10.
What is libgyoto7
libgyoto7 is:
Gyoto aims at providing a framework for computing orbits and ray-traced images in General relativity. It consists in a shared library (this package), utility programs (in the gyoto package), and a plug-in for the Yorick and Python 2 and 3 programming languages (in yorick-gyoto, python-gyoto and python3-gyoto respectively). Gyoto can be extended with plug-ins (see libgyoto7-dev).
The standard plugin (stdplug) is included in this package. Plug-ins for extending Gyoto in the Python 2 or 3 languages are shipped in the python-gyoto and python3-gyoto packages respectively.
MPI parallelization requires the gyoto-bin and mpi-default-bin packages.
There are three methods to install libgyoto7 on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libgyoto7 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libgyoto7 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libgyoto7
Install libgyoto7 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libgyoto7 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libgyoto7
Install libgyoto7 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 libgyoto7 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libgyoto7
How To Uninstall libgyoto7 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the libgyoto7 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libgyoto7
Uninstall libgyoto7 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libgyoto7 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgyoto7
Remove libgyoto7 Configurations and Data
To remove libgyoto7 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libgyoto7
Remove libgyoto7 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libgyoto7 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgyoto7
Dependencies
libgyoto7 have the following dependencies:
- libblas3
- libboost-mpi1.67.0
- libboost-serialization1.67.0
- libc6
- libcfitsio7
- libcpgplot0
- libfftw3-double3
- libflint-arb2
- libgcc1
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgyoto7 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
