How To Install indi-bin on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install indi-bin on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is indi-bin
indi-bin is:
INDI (Instrument-Neutral Device Interface) is a distributed XML-based control protocol designed to operate astronomical instrumentation. INDI is small, flexible, easy to parse, scalable, and stateless. It supports common DCS functions such as remote control, data acquisition, monitoring, and a lot more.
This package contains the INDI server, the drivers for the supported astronomical instrumentation, and other INDI tools.
There are three methods to install indi-bin 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 indi-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install indi-bin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install indi-bin
Install indi-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install indi-bin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install indi-bin
Install indi-bin 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 indi-bin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install indi-bin
How To Uninstall indi-bin on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the indi-bin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove indi-bin
Uninstall indi-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall indi-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove indi-bin
Remove indi-bin Configurations and Data
To remove indi-bin configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge indi-bin
Remove indi-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove indi-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge indi-bin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install indi-bin package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
