How To Install sasview on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install sasview on Debian 11. sasview is Small Angle Scattering Analysis suite

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sasview on Debian 11.

What is sasview

sasview is:

SasView is a Small Angle Scattering Analysis Software Package, originally developed as part of the NSF DANSE project under the name SansView, now managed by an international collaboration of facilities.

SasView is software for the analysis of Small-Angle Scattering (SAS) data.

It fits analytic functions describing different types of material microstructure to experimental data in order to determine the shape, size and degree of ordering.

SasView also includes tools for calculating scattering length densities, slit sizes, resolution, fringe thicknesses/d-spacings, the (Porod) invariant (’total scattering’), and distance distribution functions.

This package installs the sasview executable script.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install sasview

Install sasview Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install sasview

Install sasview 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 sasview using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sasview

How To Uninstall sasview on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove sasview

Uninstall sasview And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sasview

Remove sasview Configurations and Data

To remove sasview configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge sasview

Remove sasview configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sasview

Dependencies

sasview have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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