How To Install gnudatalanguage on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnudatalanguage
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gnudatalanguage
gnudatalanguage is:
GNU Data Language (GDL) is a free IDL (Interactive Data Language) compatible incremental compiler. It has full syntax compatibility with IDL 7.1. IDL is a registered trademark of ITT Visual Information Solutions. From IDL 8.0, the following language elements are supported:
- FOREACH loop
- negative array indices
- garbage collection pointers and objects
- call methods on an object using “.” (e. g.
object.aMemberProcedure,arg1
)
The file input output system is fully implemented. GUI support (widgets) is officially provided, but it’s not complete yet.
This package contains the main commandline and interpreter frontend.
There are three methods to install gnudatalanguage
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 gnudatalanguage Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnudatalanguage
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnudatalanguage
Install gnudatalanguage Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnudatalanguage
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnudatalanguage
Install gnudatalanguage 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 gnudatalanguage
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnudatalanguage
How To Uninstall gnudatalanguage on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gnudatalanguage
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnudatalanguage
Uninstall gnudatalanguage And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnudatalanguage
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnudatalanguage
Remove gnudatalanguage Configurations and Data
To remove gnudatalanguage
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnudatalanguage
Remove gnudatalanguage configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnudatalanguage
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnudatalanguage
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnudatalanguage
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.