How To Install psychtoolbox-3-dbg on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install psychtoolbox-3-dbg on Debian 10.
What is psychtoolbox-3-dbg
psychtoolbox-3-dbg 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.
To ease debugging and troubleshooting this package contains debug symbols for Octave bindings and other binaries.
There are three methods to install psychtoolbox-3-dbg 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 psychtoolbox-3-dbg 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-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install psychtoolbox-3-dbg
Install psychtoolbox-3-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install psychtoolbox-3-dbg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install psychtoolbox-3-dbg
Install psychtoolbox-3-dbg 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-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install psychtoolbox-3-dbg
How To Uninstall psychtoolbox-3-dbg on Debian 10
To uninstall only the psychtoolbox-3-dbg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove psychtoolbox-3-dbg
Uninstall psychtoolbox-3-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall psychtoolbox-3-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove psychtoolbox-3-dbg
Remove psychtoolbox-3-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove psychtoolbox-3-dbg configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge psychtoolbox-3-dbg
Remove psychtoolbox-3-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove psychtoolbox-3-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge psychtoolbox-3-dbg
Dependencies
psychtoolbox-3-dbg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install psychtoolbox-3-dbg package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
