How To Install neurodebian-popularity-contest on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install neurodebian-popularity-contest on Debian 12.
What is neurodebian-popularity-contest
neurodebian-popularity-contest 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 is a complement to the generic popularity-contest package to enable anonymous submission of usage statistics to NeuroDebian in addition to the popcon submissions to the underlying distribution (either Debian or Ubuntu) popcon server.
Participating in popcon is important for the following reasons:
- Popular packages receive more attention from developers; bugs are fixed faster and updates are provided quicker.
- It ensures that support is not dropped for a previous release of Debian or Ubuntu while there are active users.
- User statistics may be useful for upstream research software developers seeking funding for continued development.
This requires that popcon is activated for the underlying distribution (Debian or Ubuntu), which can be achieved by running “dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest” as root.
There are three methods to install neurodebian-popularity-contest 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-popularity-contest 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-popularity-contest using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install neurodebian-popularity-contest
Install neurodebian-popularity-contest Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install neurodebian-popularity-contest using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install neurodebian-popularity-contest
Install neurodebian-popularity-contest 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-popularity-contest using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install neurodebian-popularity-contest
How To Uninstall neurodebian-popularity-contest on Debian 12
To uninstall only the neurodebian-popularity-contest package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove neurodebian-popularity-contest
Uninstall neurodebian-popularity-contest And Its Dependencies
To uninstall neurodebian-popularity-contest and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove neurodebian-popularity-contest
Remove neurodebian-popularity-contest Configurations and Data
To remove neurodebian-popularity-contest configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge neurodebian-popularity-contest
Remove neurodebian-popularity-contest configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove neurodebian-popularity-contest configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge neurodebian-popularity-contest
Dependencies
neurodebian-popularity-contest have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install neurodebian-popularity-contest package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
