How To Install neurodebian on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install neurodebian on Debian 9. neurodebian is neuroscience-oriented distribution - repository configuration

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install neurodebian on Debian 9.

What is neurodebian

neurodebian is:

The NeuroDebian project integrates and maintains a variety of software projects within Debian that are useful for neuroscience (such as AFNI, FSL, PsychoPy, etc.) or generic computation (such as HTCondor, pandas, etc.).

This package enables the NeuroDebian repository on top of a standard Debian or Ubuntu system.

There are three methods to install neurodebian on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install neurodebian Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install neurodebian

Install neurodebian Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install neurodebian using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install neurodebian

Install neurodebian 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install neurodebian using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install neurodebian

How To Uninstall neurodebian on Debian 9

To uninstall only the neurodebian package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove neurodebian

Uninstall neurodebian And Its Dependencies

To uninstall neurodebian and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove neurodebian

Remove neurodebian Configurations and Data

To remove neurodebian configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge neurodebian

Remove neurodebian configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge neurodebian

Dependencies

neurodebian have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install neurodebian package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.