How To Install sofa-tutorials on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sofa-tutorials on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is sofa-tutorials
sofa-tutorials is:
SOFA is an Open Source framework primarily targeted at real-time simulation, with an emphasis on medical simulation. It is mostly intended for the research community to help develop newer algorithms, but can also be used as an efficient prototyping tool.
This package contains tutorials from the SOFA source.
There are three methods to install sofa-tutorials 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 sofa-tutorials Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sofa-tutorials using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sofa-tutorials
Install sofa-tutorials Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sofa-tutorials using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sofa-tutorials
Install sofa-tutorials 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 sofa-tutorials using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sofa-tutorials
How To Uninstall sofa-tutorials on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the sofa-tutorials package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sofa-tutorials
Uninstall sofa-tutorials And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sofa-tutorials and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sofa-tutorials
Remove sofa-tutorials Configurations and Data
To remove sofa-tutorials configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sofa-tutorials
Remove sofa-tutorials configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sofa-tutorials configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sofa-tutorials
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sofa-tutorials package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
