How To Install libstarlink-ast-doc on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarlink-ast-doc on Ubuntu 20.04. libstarlink-ast-doc is Handle World Coordinate Systems in Astronomy (documentation)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarlink-ast-doc on Ubuntu 20.04.

libstarlink-ast-doc 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 HTML and PDF documentation.

There are three methods to install libstarlink-ast-doc on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libstarlink-ast-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libstarlink-ast-doc

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libstarlink-ast-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libstarlink-ast-doc

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-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libstarlink-ast-doc

To uninstall only the libstarlink-ast-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libstarlink-ast-doc

To uninstall libstarlink-ast-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libstarlink-ast-doc

To remove libstarlink-ast-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libstarlink-ast-doc

We can use the following command to remove libstarlink-ast-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libstarlink-ast-doc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarlink-ast-doc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.