How To Install apophenia-doc on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install apophenia-doc on Debian 9.
What is apophenia-doc
apophenia-doc is:
The Apophenia Statistical C Library is an open source C library for working with data sets and statistical models. It provides functions on the same level as those of the typical stats packages (such as OLS, probit, or singular value decomposition) but gives the user more flexibility to be creative in model-building.
Apophenia is meant to scale well, to comfortably work with gigabyte data sets, million-step simulations, or computationally-intensive agent-based models.
Apophenia builds upon the GNU Scientific and SQLite libraries, MySQL/mariaDB is also supported. The core functions are written in C, but experience has shown them to be easy to bind in Python, Julia, Perl, Ruby, etc. The source code is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPL2).
This package provides the reference manual for the Apophenia Statistical C Library; it also contains examples.
There are three methods to install apophenia-doc on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install apophenia-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 apophenia-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install apophenia-doc
Install apophenia-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install apophenia-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install apophenia-doc
Install apophenia-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install apophenia-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install apophenia-doc
How To Uninstall apophenia-doc on Debian 9
To uninstall only the apophenia-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove apophenia-doc
Uninstall apophenia-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall apophenia-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove apophenia-doc
Remove apophenia-doc Configurations and Data
To remove apophenia-doc configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge apophenia-doc
Remove apophenia-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove apophenia-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apophenia-doc
Dependencies
apophenia-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install apophenia-doc package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.