How To Install aladin on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install aladin on Ubuntu 20.04. aladin is Interactive sky atlas for astronomical images and datasets

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aladin on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is aladin

aladin is:

Aladin is an interactive software sky atlas allowing the user to visualise digitised astronomical images, to superimpose entries from astronomical catalogues or databases, and to interactively access related data and information from the Simbad database, the VizieR service and other archives for all known sources in the field.

Created in 1999 by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), Aladin has become a widely-used tool of the Virtual Observatory (VO) framework capable of addressing challenges such as locating data of interest, accessing and exploring distributed datasets, and visualising multi-wavelength data. Compliance with existing or emerging VO standards, interconnection with other visualisation or analysis tools, and the ability to easily compare heterogeneous data are the key topics which allow Aladin to be a powerful data exploration and integration tool.

There are three methods to install aladin on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install aladin Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install aladin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install aladin

Install aladin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install aladin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install aladin

Install aladin 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 aladin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install aladin

How To Uninstall aladin on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the aladin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove aladin

Uninstall aladin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall aladin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove aladin

Remove aladin Configurations and Data

To remove aladin configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge aladin

Remove aladin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove aladin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aladin

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aladin package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.