How To Install magic on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install magic
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is magic
magic is:
Magic is a venerable VLSI layout tool, written in the 1980’s at Berkeley by John Ousterhout, now famous primarily for writing the scripting interpreter language Tcl. Due largely in part to its liberal Berkeley open-source license, magic has remained popular with universities and small companies. The open-source license has allowed VLSI engineers with a bent toward programming to implement clever ideas and help magic stay abreast of fabrication technology. However, it is the well thought-out core algorithms which lend to magic the greatest part of its popularity. Magic is widely cited as being the easiest tool to use for circuit layout, even for people who ultimately rely on commercial tools for their product design flow.
There are three methods to install magic
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.
Install magic Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install magic
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install magic
Install magic Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install magic
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install magic
Install magic 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 magic
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install magic
How To Uninstall magic on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the magic
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove magic
Uninstall magic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall magic
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove magic
Remove magic Configurations and Data
To remove magic
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge magic
Remove magic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove magic
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge magic
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install magic
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.