How To Install irsim on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install irsim
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is irsim
irsim is:
IRSIM is a tool for simulating digital circuits. It is a “switch-level” simulator; that is, it treats transistors as ideal switches. Extracted capacitance and lumped resistance values are used to make the switch a little bit more realistic than the ideal, using the RC time constants to predict the relative timing of events.
There are three methods to install irsim
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 irsim Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install irsim
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install irsim
Install irsim Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install irsim
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install irsim
Install irsim 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 irsim
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install irsim
How To Uninstall irsim on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the irsim
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove irsim
Uninstall irsim And Its Dependencies
To uninstall irsim
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove irsim
Remove irsim Configurations and Data
To remove irsim
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge irsim
Remove irsim configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove irsim
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge irsim
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install irsim
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.