How To Install stilts-doc on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stilts-doc on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is stilts-doc
stilts-doc is:
The STIL Tool Set is a set of command-line tools based on STIL, the Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library. It deals with the processing of tabular data; the package has been designed for, but is not restricted to, astronomical tables such as object catalogues. Some of the tools are generic and can work with multiple formats (including FITS, VOTable, CDF, CSV, SQL and ASCII), and others are specific to the VOTable format. In some ways, STILTS forms the command-line counterpart of the GUI table analysis tool TOPCAT. The package is robust, fully documented, and designed for efficiency, especially with very large datasets.
This package contains the documentation.
There are three methods to install stilts-doc on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install stilts-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stilts-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stilts-doc
Install stilts-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stilts-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stilts-doc
Install stilts-doc 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 stilts-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stilts-doc
How To Uninstall stilts-doc on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the stilts-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stilts-doc
Uninstall stilts-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stilts-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stilts-doc
Remove stilts-doc Configurations and Data
To remove stilts-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stilts-doc
Remove stilts-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stilts-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stilts-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stilts-doc package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
