How To Install eso-midas-testdata on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eso-midas-testdata
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is eso-midas-testdata
eso-midas-testdata is:
The ESO-MIDAS system provides general tools for image processing and data reduction with emphasis on astronomical applications including imaging and special reduction packages for ESO instrumentation at La Silla and the VLT at Paranal. In addition it contains applications packages for stellar and surface photometry, image sharpening and decomposition, statistics and various others.
This package contains the test data files required for verification.
There are three methods to install eso-midas-testdata
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install eso-midas-testdata Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install eso-midas-testdata
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install eso-midas-testdata
Install eso-midas-testdata Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install eso-midas-testdata
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install eso-midas-testdata
Install eso-midas-testdata 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 eso-midas-testdata
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eso-midas-testdata
How To Uninstall eso-midas-testdata on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the eso-midas-testdata
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove eso-midas-testdata
Uninstall eso-midas-testdata And Its Dependencies
To uninstall eso-midas-testdata
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove eso-midas-testdata
Remove eso-midas-testdata Configurations and Data
To remove eso-midas-testdata
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge eso-midas-testdata
Remove eso-midas-testdata configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove eso-midas-testdata
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eso-midas-testdata
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eso-midas-testdata
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.