How To Install science-astronomy on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install science-astronomy
on Debian 9.
What is science-astronomy
science-astronomy is:
Debian-Astro is now a separate Debian Pure Blend and allows a fine-grained control on the topics to install. To ease the transition, this package will install all user related tasks from Debian-Astro.
There are three methods to install science-astronomy
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 science-astronomy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install science-astronomy
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install science-astronomy
Install science-astronomy Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install science-astronomy
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install science-astronomy
Install science-astronomy 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 science-astronomy
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install science-astronomy
How To Uninstall science-astronomy on Debian 9
To uninstall only the science-astronomy
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove science-astronomy
Uninstall science-astronomy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall science-astronomy
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove science-astronomy
Remove science-astronomy Configurations and Data
To remove science-astronomy
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge science-astronomy
Remove science-astronomy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove science-astronomy
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge science-astronomy
Dependencies
science-astronomy have the following dependencies:
- astro-catalogs
- astro-datareduction
- astro-education
- astro-frameworks
- astro-gdl
- astro-publication
- astro-python3
- astro-radioastronomy
- astro-simulation
- astro-telescopecontrol
- astro-tools
- astro-viewers
- astro-virtual-observatory
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install science-astronomy
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.