How To Install easyspice on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install easyspice on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is easyspice
easyspice is:
Easyspice is a graphical frontend for the electrical circuit simulator Spice. It is by default connected to the geda package and ngspice but can be used as a frontend for other spice simulators programs as well.
There are three methods to install easyspice 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 easyspice Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install easyspice using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install easyspice
Install easyspice Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install easyspice using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install easyspice
Install easyspice 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 easyspice using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install easyspice
How To Uninstall easyspice on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the easyspice package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove easyspice
Uninstall easyspice And Its Dependencies
To uninstall easyspice and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove easyspice
Remove easyspice Configurations and Data
To remove easyspice configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge easyspice
Remove easyspice configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove easyspice configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge easyspice
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install easyspice package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
