How To Install libmagplus3v5 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmagplus3v5 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libmagplus3v5
libmagplus3v5 is:
Magics++ is the latest generation of the ECMWF’s Meteorological plotting software MAGICS. Although completely redesigned in C++, it is intended to be as backwards-compatible as possible with the Fortran interface. Besides its programming interfaces (Fortran and C), Magics++ offers MagML, a plot description language based on XML aimed at automatic web production.
The library supports the plotting of contours, wind fields, observations, satellite images, symbols, text, axis and graphs (including boxplots).
Data fields to be plotted may be presented in various formats, for instance GRIB 1 and 2 code data, Gaussian grid, regularly spaced grid and fitted data. Input data can also be in BUFR and NetCDF format or retrieved from an ODB database.
The produced meteorological plots can be saved in various formats, such as PostScript, EPS, PDF, GIF, PNG, SVG and KML.
There are three methods to install libmagplus3v5 on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libmagplus3v5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmagplus3v5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmagplus3v5
Install libmagplus3v5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmagplus3v5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmagplus3v5
Install libmagplus3v5 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 libmagplus3v5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmagplus3v5
How To Uninstall libmagplus3v5 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libmagplus3v5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmagplus3v5
Uninstall libmagplus3v5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmagplus3v5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmagplus3v5
Remove libmagplus3v5 Configurations and Data
To remove libmagplus3v5 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmagplus3v5
Remove libmagplus3v5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmagplus3v5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmagplus3v5
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmagplus3v5 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
