How To Install expeyes-firmware-dev on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install expeyes-firmware-dev on Debian 10.
What is expeyes-firmware-dev
expeyes-firmware-dev 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-firmware-dev 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-firmware-dev 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-firmware-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install expeyes-firmware-dev
Install expeyes-firmware-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install expeyes-firmware-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install expeyes-firmware-dev
Install expeyes-firmware-dev 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-firmware-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install expeyes-firmware-dev
How To Uninstall expeyes-firmware-dev on Debian 10
To uninstall only the expeyes-firmware-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove expeyes-firmware-dev
Uninstall expeyes-firmware-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall expeyes-firmware-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove expeyes-firmware-dev
Remove expeyes-firmware-dev Configurations and Data
To remove expeyes-firmware-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge expeyes-firmware-dev
Remove expeyes-firmware-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove expeyes-firmware-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge expeyes-firmware-dev
Dependencies
expeyes-firmware-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install expeyes-firmware-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.