How To Install neurodebian-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install neurodebian-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is neurodebian-dev
neurodebian-dev 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 sources and development tools used by NeuroDebian to provide backports for a range of Debian/Ubuntu releases.
There are three methods to install neurodebian-dev 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-dev 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-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install neurodebian-dev
Install neurodebian-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install neurodebian-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install neurodebian-dev
Install neurodebian-dev 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-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install neurodebian-dev
How To Uninstall neurodebian-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the neurodebian-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove neurodebian-dev
Uninstall neurodebian-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall neurodebian-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove neurodebian-dev
Remove neurodebian-dev Configurations and Data
To remove neurodebian-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge neurodebian-dev
Remove neurodebian-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove neurodebian-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge neurodebian-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install neurodebian-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
