How To Install neurodebian-desktop on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install neurodebian-desktop on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is neurodebian-desktop
neurodebian-desktop 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 provides NeuroDebian artwork (icons, background image) and a NeuroDebian menu featuring the most popular neuroscience tools, which will be automatically installed upon initial invocation.
There are three methods to install neurodebian-desktop 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 neurodebian-desktop 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-desktop using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install neurodebian-desktop
Install neurodebian-desktop Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install neurodebian-desktop using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install neurodebian-desktop
Install neurodebian-desktop 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 neurodebian-desktop using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install neurodebian-desktop
How To Uninstall neurodebian-desktop on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the neurodebian-desktop package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove neurodebian-desktop
Uninstall neurodebian-desktop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall neurodebian-desktop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove neurodebian-desktop
Remove neurodebian-desktop Configurations and Data
To remove neurodebian-desktop configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge neurodebian-desktop
Remove neurodebian-desktop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove neurodebian-desktop configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge neurodebian-desktop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install neurodebian-desktop package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
