How To Install cpl-plugin-muse on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install cpl-plugin-muse on Ubuntu 22.04. cpl-plugin-muse is ESO data reduction pipeline for the MUSE instrument

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cpl-plugin-muse on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is cpl-plugin-muse

cpl-plugin-muse is:

This is the data reduction pipeline for the Muse instrument of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) from the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

MUSE, the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer, is an Integral Field Spectrograph located at the Nasmyth B focus of Yepun, the VLT UT4 telescope. It has a modular structure composed of 24 identical IFU modules that together sample, in Wide Field Mode (WFM), a near-contiguous 1 squared arcmin field of view. Spectrally the instrument samples almost the full optical domain with a mean resolution of 3000. Spatially, the instrument samples the sky with 0.2 arcseconds spatial pixels in the currently offered Wide Field Mode with natural seeing (WFM-noAO).

There are three methods to install cpl-plugin-muse 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 cpl-plugin-muse Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cpl-plugin-muse

Install cpl-plugin-muse Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install cpl-plugin-muse using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cpl-plugin-muse

Install cpl-plugin-muse 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 cpl-plugin-muse using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cpl-plugin-muse

How To Uninstall cpl-plugin-muse on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the cpl-plugin-muse package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cpl-plugin-muse

Uninstall cpl-plugin-muse And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cpl-plugin-muse and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cpl-plugin-muse

Remove cpl-plugin-muse Configurations and Data

To remove cpl-plugin-muse configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cpl-plugin-muse

Remove cpl-plugin-muse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove cpl-plugin-muse configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cpl-plugin-muse

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cpl-plugin-muse package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.