How To Install libhkl5 on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhkl5
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libhkl5
libhkl5 is:
The hkl library is a framework for diffraction computation and diffractometer control, heavily used at the SOLEIL synchrotron. It supports various types of diffractometer geometry: Eulerian 4-circle, Eulerian 6-circle, kappa 4-circle, kappa 6-circle, and z-axis geometry. For each of these it provides several numerically computed modes, such as bisector and constant psi.
This package provides the runtime hkl library.
There are three methods to install libhkl5
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libhkl5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libhkl5
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libhkl5
Install libhkl5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libhkl5
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libhkl5
Install libhkl5 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 libhkl5
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libhkl5
How To Uninstall libhkl5 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libhkl5
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libhkl5
Uninstall libhkl5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libhkl5
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhkl5
Remove libhkl5 Configurations and Data
To remove libhkl5
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libhkl5
Remove libhkl5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libhkl5
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhkl5
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhkl5
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.