How To Install libstarlink-ast-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarlink-ast-dev
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libstarlink-ast-dev
libstarlink-ast-dev is:
AST implements an object oriented model for describing physical coordinate systems, and the transformations that exist between them.
It provides a comprehensive range of facilities for attaching world coordinate systems (WCS) to astronomical data and for retrieving and manipulating that information.
It has built-in intelligence for identifying types of celestial, spectral, time and other coordinate systems (including compound systems that combine axes of different types) and determining how to transform between them. This allows general purpose code to be written that makes no assumptions about the nature of the coordinate systems.
This package contains the files needed for development.
There are three methods to install libstarlink-ast-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 libstarlink-ast-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 libstarlink-ast-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libstarlink-ast-dev
Install libstarlink-ast-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libstarlink-ast-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libstarlink-ast-dev
Install libstarlink-ast-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 libstarlink-ast-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libstarlink-ast-dev
How To Uninstall libstarlink-ast-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libstarlink-ast-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libstarlink-ast-dev
Uninstall libstarlink-ast-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libstarlink-ast-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libstarlink-ast-dev
Remove libstarlink-ast-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libstarlink-ast-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libstarlink-ast-dev
Remove libstarlink-ast-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libstarlink-ast-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libstarlink-ast-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarlink-ast-dev
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.