How To Install libpurify-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpurify-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libpurify-dev
libpurify-dev is:
PURIFY is a collection of routines written in C that implements different tools for radio interferometric imaging including file handling (for both visibilities and fits files), implementation of the measurement operator and set-up of the different optimization problems used for image deconvolution. The code calls the generic Sparse OPTimization (SOPT) package to solve the imaging optimization problems.
This package contains the development files.
There are three methods to install libpurify-dev 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 libpurify-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libpurify-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libpurify-dev
Install libpurify-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libpurify-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libpurify-dev
Install libpurify-dev 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 libpurify-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libpurify-dev
How To Uninstall libpurify-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libpurify-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libpurify-dev
Uninstall libpurify-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libpurify-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpurify-dev
Remove libpurify-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libpurify-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libpurify-dev
Remove libpurify-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libpurify-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpurify-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpurify-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.