How To Install topcat on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install topcat on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is topcat
topcat is:
TOPCAT is an interactive graphical viewer and editor for tabular data. Its aim is to provide most of the facilities that astronomers need for analysis and manipulation of source catalogues and other tables, though it can be used for non-astronomical data as well. It understands a number of different astronomically important formats (including FITS and VOTable) and more formats can be added.
This package contains the executable.
There are three methods to install topcat 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 topcat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install topcat using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install topcat
Install topcat Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install topcat using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install topcat
Install topcat 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 topcat using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install topcat
How To Uninstall topcat on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the topcat package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove topcat
Uninstall topcat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall topcat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove topcat
Remove topcat Configurations and Data
To remove topcat configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge topcat
Remove topcat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove topcat configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge topcat
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install topcat package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
