How To Install expeyes on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install expeyes on Debian 10.
What is expeyes
expeyes is:
This package provides high level interfaces for making science experiments with an ExpEYES box.
ExpEYES is from the PHOENIX project of Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi. It is a hardware & software framework for developing science experiments, demonstrations and projects and learn science and engineering by exploration. Capable of doing real time measurements and analysing the data in different ways. Analog voltages are measured with 0.025% resolution and time intervals with one microsecond. This project is based on Free and Open Source software, mostly written in Python programming language. The hardware design is also open.
There are three methods to install expeyes on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install expeyes Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install expeyes using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install expeyes
Install expeyes Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install expeyes using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install expeyes
Install expeyes 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 expeyes using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install expeyes
How To Uninstall expeyes on Debian 10
To uninstall only the expeyes package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove expeyes
Uninstall expeyes And Its Dependencies
To uninstall expeyes and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove expeyes
Remove expeyes Configurations and Data
To remove expeyes configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge expeyes
Remove expeyes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove expeyes configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge expeyes
Dependencies
expeyes have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install expeyes package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.