How To Install libcfitsio-doc on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcfitsio-doc
on Debian 9.
What is libcfitsio-doc
libcfitsio-doc is:
FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) is a data format most used in astronomy. cfitsio is a library of ANSI C routines for reading and writing FITS format data files. A set of Fortran-callable wrapper routines are also included for the convenience of Fortran programmers.
This package contains the CFITSIO User’s Guide and QuickStart Guide in html, postscript and text formats, and contains documentation on how to use the library in your programs. It also contains example source files that demonstrate the use of CFITSIO.
There are three methods to install libcfitsio-doc
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libcfitsio-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcfitsio-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcfitsio-doc
Install libcfitsio-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcfitsio-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcfitsio-doc
Install libcfitsio-doc 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libcfitsio-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcfitsio-doc
How To Uninstall libcfitsio-doc on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libcfitsio-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcfitsio-doc
Uninstall libcfitsio-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcfitsio-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcfitsio-doc
Remove libcfitsio-doc Configurations and Data
To remove libcfitsio-doc
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcfitsio-doc
Remove libcfitsio-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcfitsio-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcfitsio-doc
Dependencies
libcfitsio-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcfitsio-doc
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.