How To Install openturns-validation on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install openturns-validation on Ubuntu 18.04. openturns-validation is validation files for OpenTURNS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openturns-validation on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is openturns-validation

openturns-validation 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 includes many maple input files that validates the results and the algorithms of OpenTURNS in a mathematical sense.

There are three methods to install openturns-validation 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-validation 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-validation using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install openturns-validation

Install openturns-validation Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install openturns-validation

Install openturns-validation 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-validation using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install openturns-validation

How To Uninstall openturns-validation on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the openturns-validation package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove openturns-validation

Uninstall openturns-validation And Its Dependencies

To uninstall openturns-validation and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove openturns-validation

Remove openturns-validation Configurations and Data

To remove openturns-validation configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge openturns-validation

Remove openturns-validation configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openturns-validation

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install openturns-validation package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.