How To Install science-statistics on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install science-statistics on Debian 12.
What is science-statistics
science-statistics is:
This metapackage is part of the Debian Pure Blend “Debian Science” and installs packages related to statistics. This task is a general task which might be useful for any scientific work. It depends from a lot of R packages as well as from other tools which are useful to do statistics. Moreover the Science Mathematics task is suggested to optionally install all mathematics related software.
There are three methods to install science-statistics on Debian 12. 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-statistics 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-statistics using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install science-statistics
Install science-statistics Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install science-statistics using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install science-statistics
Install science-statistics 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-statistics using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install science-statistics
How To Uninstall science-statistics on Debian 12
To uninstall only the science-statistics package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove science-statistics
Uninstall science-statistics And Its Dependencies
To uninstall science-statistics and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove science-statistics
Remove science-statistics Configurations and Data
To remove science-statistics configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge science-statistics
Remove science-statistics configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove science-statistics configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge science-statistics
Dependencies
science-statistics have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install science-statistics package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
