How To Install psychtoolbox-3-common on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install psychtoolbox-3-common on Debian 11. psychtoolbox-3-common is toolbox for vision research – arch/interpreter independent part

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install psychtoolbox-3-common on Debian 11.

What is psychtoolbox-3-common

psychtoolbox-3-common is:

Psychophysics Toolbox Version 3 (PTB-3) is a free set of Matlab and GNU/Octave functions for vision research. It makes it easy to synthesize and show accurately controlled visual and auditory stimuli and interact with the observer.

The Psychophysics Toolbox interfaces between Matlab or Octave and the computer hardware. The Psychtoolbox’s core routines provide access to the display frame buffer and color lookup table, allow synchronization with the vertical retrace, support millisecond timing, allow access to OpenGL commands, and facilitate the collection of observer responses. Ancillary routines support common needs like color space transformations and the QUEST threshold seeking algorithm.

This package contains architecture independent files (such as .m scripts)

There are three methods to install psychtoolbox-3-common on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install psychtoolbox-3-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install psychtoolbox-3-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install psychtoolbox-3-common

Install psychtoolbox-3-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install psychtoolbox-3-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install psychtoolbox-3-common

Install psychtoolbox-3-common 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 psychtoolbox-3-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install psychtoolbox-3-common

How To Uninstall psychtoolbox-3-common on Debian 11

To uninstall only the psychtoolbox-3-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove psychtoolbox-3-common

Uninstall psychtoolbox-3-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall psychtoolbox-3-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove psychtoolbox-3-common

Remove psychtoolbox-3-common Configurations and Data

To remove psychtoolbox-3-common configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge psychtoolbox-3-common

Remove psychtoolbox-3-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove psychtoolbox-3-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge psychtoolbox-3-common

Dependencies

psychtoolbox-3-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install psychtoolbox-3-common package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.