How To Install openvlbi-bin on Debian 12

Learn how to install openvlbi-bin on Debian 12 with this tutorial. openvlbi-bin is OpenVLBI Correlator library - client applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openvlbi-bin on Debian 12.

What is openvlbi-bin

openvlbi-bin is:

OpenVLBI is an open source library for astronomical interferometers. with OpenVLBI astronomers can join together more telescopes to observe celestial objects at great resolution. OpenVLBI can be used with radio antennas or optical sensors. A test and multi-contextual client/server applications are included into openvlbi-bin, and libopenvlbi contains the correlator library. An INDI client is included into openvlbi-bin which connects to one or more INDI servers that observe in realtime.

This package contains the client application.

There are three methods to install openvlbi-bin on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install openvlbi-bin Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install openvlbi-bin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install openvlbi-bin

Install openvlbi-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install openvlbi-bin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install openvlbi-bin

Install openvlbi-bin 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 openvlbi-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install openvlbi-bin

How To Uninstall openvlbi-bin on Debian 12

To uninstall only the openvlbi-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove openvlbi-bin

Uninstall openvlbi-bin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall openvlbi-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove openvlbi-bin

Remove openvlbi-bin Configurations and Data

To remove openvlbi-bin configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge openvlbi-bin

Remove openvlbi-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove openvlbi-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openvlbi-bin

Dependencies

openvlbi-bin have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install openvlbi-bin package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.