How To Install libcfitsio9 on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcfitsio9
on Debian 11.
What is libcfitsio9
libcfitsio9 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 libcfitsio9
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libcfitsio9 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcfitsio9
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcfitsio9
Install libcfitsio9 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcfitsio9
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcfitsio9
Install libcfitsio9 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 libcfitsio9
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcfitsio9
How To Uninstall libcfitsio9 on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libcfitsio9
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcfitsio9
Uninstall libcfitsio9 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcfitsio9
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcfitsio9
Remove libcfitsio9 Configurations and Data
To remove libcfitsio9
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcfitsio9
Remove libcfitsio9 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcfitsio9
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcfitsio9
Dependencies
libcfitsio9 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcfitsio9
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.