How To Install montage-gridtools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install montage-gridtools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is montage-gridtools
montage-gridtools is:
Montage is a toolkit for assembling astronomical images into custom mosaics.
This package contains modules that can generate a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) representation of the mosaicking process for a set of on-line surveys (e.g., 2MASS). This information is fed to the Pegasus software from ISI (the Information Sciences Institute), which produces processing plans for Condor (or Condor-G on the Teragrid).
These modules should be considered prototypes: they have been used extensively but have not been subject to the same rigorous testing to which the core modules have been subjected. Users should contact Montage ([email protected]) before employing them to verify limitations in their use and changes in the interfaces.
There are three methods to install montage-gridtools 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 montage-gridtools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install montage-gridtools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install montage-gridtools
Install montage-gridtools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install montage-gridtools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install montage-gridtools
Install montage-gridtools 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 montage-gridtools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install montage-gridtools
How To Uninstall montage-gridtools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the montage-gridtools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove montage-gridtools
Uninstall montage-gridtools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall montage-gridtools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove montage-gridtools
Remove montage-gridtools Configurations and Data
To remove montage-gridtools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge montage-gridtools
Remove montage-gridtools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove montage-gridtools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge montage-gridtools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install montage-gridtools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
