How To Install biosig-tools on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install biosig-tools
on Debian 11.
What is biosig-tools
biosig-tools is:
Based on BioSig library, this package provides command line tools, such as
- save2gdf: converter between different file formats, including but not limited to SCP-ECG(EN1064), HL7aECG (FDA-XML), GDF, EDF, BDF, CWFB.
- biosig2gdf: converts biosig data files into GDF, to simplify parsing and loading by scripting languages (e.g. loadgdf.{py,r})
- rec2bin, bin2rec, heka2itx, save2aecg, save2scp: several converter tools based on save2gdf
- biosig_fhir: packs biosignal data into HL7/FHIR binary template file.
- physicalunits: converter for encoding and decoding of physical units according to ISO 11073-10101
There are three methods to install biosig-tools
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install biosig-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install biosig-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install biosig-tools
Install biosig-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install biosig-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install biosig-tools
Install biosig-tools 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 biosig-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install biosig-tools
How To Uninstall biosig-tools on Debian 11
To uninstall only the biosig-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove biosig-tools
Uninstall biosig-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall biosig-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove biosig-tools
Remove biosig-tools Configurations and Data
To remove biosig-tools
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge biosig-tools
Remove biosig-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove biosig-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge biosig-tools
Dependencies
biosig-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install biosig-tools
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.