How To Install libstarlink-ast0 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarlink-ast0 on Ubuntu 18.04. libstarlink-ast0 is Handle World Coordinate Systems in Astronomy (main shared lib)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarlink-ast0 on Ubuntu 18.04.

libstarlink-ast0 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 main shared library.

There are three methods to install libstarlink-ast0 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.

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libstarlink-ast0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libstarlink-ast0

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libstarlink-ast0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libstarlink-ast0

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-ast0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libstarlink-ast0

To uninstall only the libstarlink-ast0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libstarlink-ast0

To uninstall libstarlink-ast0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libstarlink-ast0

To remove libstarlink-ast0 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libstarlink-ast0

We can use the following command to remove libstarlink-ast0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libstarlink-ast0

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarlink-ast0 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.