How To Install libcfitsio5 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcfitsio5
on Debian 9.
What is libcfitsio5
libcfitsio5 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 what you need to run programs that use this library.
There are three methods to install libcfitsio5
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 libcfitsio5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcfitsio5
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcfitsio5
Install libcfitsio5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcfitsio5
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcfitsio5
Install libcfitsio5 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 libcfitsio5
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcfitsio5
How To Uninstall libcfitsio5 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libcfitsio5
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcfitsio5
Uninstall libcfitsio5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcfitsio5
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcfitsio5
Remove libcfitsio5 Configurations and Data
To remove libcfitsio5
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcfitsio5
Remove libcfitsio5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcfitsio5
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcfitsio5
Dependencies
libcfitsio5 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcfitsio5
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.