How To Install gcrystal on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gcrystal on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gcrystal
gcrystal is:
GNOME Crystal is a light model visualizer for crystal-structures. It is based on the GNOME Chemistry Utils and should display models of all sorts of crystal microscopic structures using OpenGL.
There are three methods to install gcrystal 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 gcrystal Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gcrystal using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gcrystal
Install gcrystal Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gcrystal using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gcrystal
Install gcrystal 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 gcrystal using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gcrystal
How To Uninstall gcrystal on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gcrystal package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gcrystal
Uninstall gcrystal And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gcrystal and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gcrystal
Remove gcrystal Configurations and Data
To remove gcrystal configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gcrystal
Remove gcrystal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gcrystal configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gcrystal
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gcrystal package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.