How To Install ghkl on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghkl
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ghkl
ghkl is:
The hkl library is a framework for diffraction computation and diffractometer control, heavily used at the SOLEIL synchrotron. It supports various types of diffractometer geometry: Eulerian 4-circle, Eulerian 6-circle, kappa 4-circle, kappa 6-circle, and z-axis geometry. For each of these it provides several numerically computed modes, such as bisector and constant psi.
This package provides a gui on top of the hkl library.
There are three methods to install ghkl
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 ghkl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ghkl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ghkl
Install ghkl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ghkl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ghkl
Install ghkl 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 ghkl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ghkl
How To Uninstall ghkl on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ghkl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ghkl
Uninstall ghkl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ghkl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ghkl
Remove ghkl Configurations and Data
To remove ghkl
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ghkl
Remove ghkl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ghkl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ghkl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghkl
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.