How To Install gnuastro on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuastro
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gnuastro
gnuastro is:
GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro) is a collection of programs (this package) and librarires (
libgnuastro9',
libgnuastro-dev’) for astronomical data analysis and manipulation. The programs can be run on the command-line for efficient and easy usage and the libraries can be used within C and C++ programs.
This package contains Gnuastro’s programs.
There are three methods to install gnuastro
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 gnuastro Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnuastro
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnuastro
Install gnuastro Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnuastro
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnuastro
Install gnuastro 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 gnuastro
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnuastro
How To Uninstall gnuastro on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gnuastro
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnuastro
Uninstall gnuastro And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnuastro
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnuastro
Remove gnuastro Configurations and Data
To remove gnuastro
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnuastro
Remove gnuastro configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnuastro
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnuastro
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuastro
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.