How To Install gwyddion-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gwyddion-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gwyddion-plugins
gwyddion-plugins is:
Gwyddion is a modular program for Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) data visualization and analysis. It is primarily intended for analysis of height field data obtained by microscopy techniques like
- Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM),
- Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM),
- Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM),
- Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy (SNOM or NSOM) and others. However, it can be used for arbitrary height field and image analysis.
This package yet contains only sample plugins for Gwyddion in Python, Ruby and Perl.
If you would like to extend Gwyddion’s functionality, you are encouraged to consider writing Gwyddion modules instead of plugins. For help on this, see the package libgwyddion20-doc.
There are three methods to install gwyddion-plugins 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 gwyddion-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gwyddion-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gwyddion-plugins
Install gwyddion-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gwyddion-plugins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gwyddion-plugins
Install gwyddion-plugins 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 gwyddion-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gwyddion-plugins
How To Uninstall gwyddion-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gwyddion-plugins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gwyddion-plugins
Uninstall gwyddion-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gwyddion-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gwyddion-plugins
Remove gwyddion-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove gwyddion-plugins configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gwyddion-plugins
Remove gwyddion-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gwyddion-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gwyddion-plugins
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gwyddion-plugins package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
