How To Install openturns-examples on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openturns-examples on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is openturns-examples
openturns-examples is:
OpenTURNS is a powerful and generic tool to treat and quantify uncertainties in numerical simulations in design, optimization and control. It allows both sensitivity and reliability analysis studies:
- defining the outputs of interest and decision criterion;
- quantify and model the source of uncertainties;
- propagate uncertainties and/or analyse sensitivity and
- rank the sources of uncertainty
OpenTURNS is a large project with more than 300 C++ classes which uses well known and supported software such as R for the statistical methods and BLAS/LAPACK for the linear algebra.
This package provides examples which are written either in C++ or in Python.
They are primarly used as validation tests for the whole platform but they can also be seen as tutorials for beginners.
There are three methods to install openturns-examples 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 openturns-examples Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install openturns-examples using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openturns-examples
Install openturns-examples Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openturns-examples using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openturns-examples
Install openturns-examples 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 openturns-examples using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openturns-examples
How To Uninstall openturns-examples on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the openturns-examples package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openturns-examples
Uninstall openturns-examples And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openturns-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openturns-examples
Remove openturns-examples Configurations and Data
To remove openturns-examples configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openturns-examples
Remove openturns-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openturns-examples configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openturns-examples
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openturns-examples package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
