How To Install libastrometry-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libastrometry-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libastrometry-dev
libastrometry-dev is:
The astrometry engine will take any image and return the astrometry world coordinate system (WCS), a standards-based description of the transformation between image coordinates and sky coordinates.
This package contains the development files (header files).
There are three methods to install libastrometry-dev
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 libastrometry-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libastrometry-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libastrometry-dev
Install libastrometry-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libastrometry-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libastrometry-dev
Install libastrometry-dev 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 libastrometry-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libastrometry-dev
How To Uninstall libastrometry-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libastrometry-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libastrometry-dev
Uninstall libastrometry-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libastrometry-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libastrometry-dev
Remove libastrometry-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libastrometry-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libastrometry-dev
Remove libastrometry-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libastrometry-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libastrometry-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libastrometry-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.