How To Install neurodebian-freeze on Debian 12

Learn how to install neurodebian-freeze on Debian 12 with this tutorial. neurodebian-freeze is nd_freeze tool to freeze APT sources to use snapshots

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install neurodebian-freeze on Debian 12.

What is neurodebian-freeze

neurodebian-freeze 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 minimalistic package provides nd_freeze script to be used in rich or minimalistic environments (such as Docker or Singularity recipes) to freeze their APT sources. Intended to assist making such images reproducible.

There are three methods to install neurodebian-freeze on Debian 12. 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-freeze 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-freeze using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install neurodebian-freeze

Install neurodebian-freeze Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install neurodebian-freeze

Install neurodebian-freeze 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-freeze using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install neurodebian-freeze

How To Uninstall neurodebian-freeze on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove neurodebian-freeze

Uninstall neurodebian-freeze And Its Dependencies

To uninstall neurodebian-freeze and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove neurodebian-freeze

Remove neurodebian-freeze Configurations and Data

To remove neurodebian-freeze configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge neurodebian-freeze

Remove neurodebian-freeze configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge neurodebian-freeze

Dependencies

neurodebian-freeze have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install neurodebian-freeze package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.