How To Install python-openturns on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-openturns on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-openturns
python-openturns is:
OpenTURNS is a powerful and generic tool to treat and quantify uncertainties in numerical simulations in design, optimization and control. It allows both sensitivity and reliability analysis studies:
- defining the outputs of interest and decision criterion;
- quantify and model the source of uncertainties;
- propagate uncertainties and/or analyse sensitivity and
- rank the sources of uncertainty
OpenTURNS is a large project with more than 300 C++ classes which uses well known and supported software such as R for the statistical methods and BLAS/LAPACK for the linear algebra.
This package provides a textual user interface that gives access to all the functionalities provided by the OpenTURNS library.
There are three methods to install python-openturns on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python-openturns Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-openturns using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-openturns
Install python-openturns Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-openturns using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-openturns
Install python-openturns 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install python-openturns using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-openturns
How To Uninstall python-openturns on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-openturns package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-openturns
Uninstall python-openturns And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-openturns and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-openturns
Remove python-openturns Configurations and Data
To remove python-openturns configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-openturns
Remove python-openturns configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-openturns configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-openturns
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-openturns package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
