How To Install openrocket on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openrocket
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is openrocket
openrocket is:
OpenRocket is a free, fully featured model rocket simulator that allows you to design and simulate your rockets before actually building and flying them.
OpenRocket features a full six-degree-of-freedom simulation, realistic wind modeling, a multitude of different components including free-form and canted fins, clustering and staging.
This package therefore downloads the pre-built OpenRocket .jar file from the upstream site and installs it.
There are three methods to install openrocket
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install openrocket Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install openrocket
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openrocket
Install openrocket Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openrocket
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openrocket
Install openrocket 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 openrocket
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openrocket
How To Uninstall openrocket on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the openrocket
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openrocket
Uninstall openrocket And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openrocket
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openrocket
Remove openrocket Configurations and Data
To remove openrocket
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openrocket
Remove openrocket configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openrocket
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openrocket
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openrocket
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.