How To Install python-pymca5-dbg on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-pymca5-dbg on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-pymca5-dbg is Applications and toolkit for X-ray fluorescence analysis – Python 2 debug

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pymca5-dbg on Debian 10.

What is python-pymca5-dbg

python-pymca5-dbg is:

PyMca is set of applications and Python libraries for analysis of X-ray fluorescence spectra.

The applications included in this package are:

  • edfviewer - Display and inspection of data files in ESRF Data Format
  • elementsinfo - Displays element specific X-ray data
  • mca2edf - Converts files from SPEC MCA format to EDF
  • peakidentifier - Displays X-ray fluorescence peaks in a given energy range
  • pymcabatch - Batch fitting of spectra
  • pymcapostbatch - Post-processing of batch fitting results
  • pymca - Interactive data-analysis
  • pymcaroitool - Region-of-interest (ROI) imaging tool

The PyMca toolkit can read data files in SPEC, ESRF data file (EDF), OMNIC, HDF5, AIFIRA and SupaVisio formats.

This is the Python 2 debug version of the package.

There are three methods to install python-pymca5-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 python-pymca5-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 python-pymca5-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-pymca5-dbg

Install python-pymca5-dbg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python-pymca5-dbg using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python-pymca5-dbg

Install python-pymca5-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 python-pymca5-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-pymca5-dbg

How To Uninstall python-pymca5-dbg on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-pymca5-dbg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-pymca5-dbg

Uninstall python-pymca5-dbg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-pymca5-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-pymca5-dbg

Remove python-pymca5-dbg Configurations and Data

To remove python-pymca5-dbg configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-pymca5-dbg

Remove python-pymca5-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python-pymca5-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-pymca5-dbg

Dependencies

python-pymca5-dbg have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pymca5-dbg package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.