How To Install neuron-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install neuron-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. neuron-dev is Neuron simulation environment - Development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install neuron-dev on Debian 10.

What is neuron-dev

neuron-dev is:

NEURON is a simulation environment for modeling individual neurons and networks of neurons. It provides tools for conveniently building, managing, and using models in a way that is numerically sound and computationally efficient. It is particularly well-suited to problems that are closely linked to experimental data, especially those that involve cells with complex anatomical and biophysical properties.

This package contains development files for the NEURON environment.

There are three methods to install neuron-dev on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install neuron-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 neuron-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install neuron-dev

Install neuron-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install neuron-dev

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

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install neuron-dev

How To Uninstall neuron-dev on Debian 10

To uninstall only the neuron-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove neuron-dev

Uninstall neuron-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall neuron-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove neuron-dev

Remove neuron-dev Configurations and Data

To remove neuron-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge neuron-dev

Remove neuron-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge neuron-dev

Dependencies

neuron-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install neuron-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.