How To Install biosig-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install biosig-tools
on Ubuntu 18.04.
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. save2gdf can be also used to upload or retrieve data from a bscs server.
There are three methods to install biosig-tools
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install biosig-tools
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.