How To Install pyscanfcs on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install pyscanfcs on Debian 9. pyscanfcs is scientific tool for perpendicular line scanning FCS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pyscanfcs on Debian 9.

What is pyscanfcs

pyscanfcs is:

When a membrane is scanned perpendicularly to its surface, the fluorescence signal originating from the membrane itself must be separated from the signal of the surrounding medium for an FCS analysis. PyScanFCS interactively extracts the fluctuating fluorescence signal from such measurements and applies a multiple-tau algorithm. The obtained correlation curves can be evaluated using PyCorrFit.

Package provides the Python module pyscanfcs and its graphical user interface. The graphical user interface is written in wxPython.

There are three methods to install pyscanfcs 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 pyscanfcs Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pyscanfcs

Install pyscanfcs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pyscanfcs using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pyscanfcs

Install pyscanfcs 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 pyscanfcs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pyscanfcs

How To Uninstall pyscanfcs on Debian 9

To uninstall only the pyscanfcs package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pyscanfcs

Uninstall pyscanfcs And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pyscanfcs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pyscanfcs

Remove pyscanfcs Configurations and Data

To remove pyscanfcs configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pyscanfcs

Remove pyscanfcs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pyscanfcs

Dependencies

pyscanfcs have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pyscanfcs package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.