How To Install pan-config on Debian 12

Learn how to install pan-config on Debian 12 with this tutorial. pan-config is PAN Blend config package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pan-config on Debian 12.

What is pan-config

pan-config is:

This package provides the basic infrastructure of all pan-* packages and is needed by them.

These are the pan related metapackages in the PAN Blend project:

pan-coherent-diffraction: coherent diffraction software pan-control-systems: control systems pan-control-systems-dev: control system development packages pan-data-reduction-frameworks: data reduction frameworks pan-data-reduction-frameworks-dev: data reduction frameworks dev pan-diffraction: diffraction software suit pan-grazing-incidence: grazing incidence X-ray photon and neutron diffraction pan-imaging: imaging software pan-machine-learning: machine learning software pan-modelling: modeling software pan-mx: macro molecular diffraction pan-powder: powder diffraction pan-small-angle-scattering: small angle scattering pan-spectroscopy: X-Rays and Neutron spectroscopy pan-tomography: photons and neutrons (PAN) Blend tomography pan-xas: EXAFS and XANES

There are three methods to install pan-config 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 pan-config Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install pan-config using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pan-config

Install pan-config Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pan-config

Install pan-config 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 pan-config using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pan-config

How To Uninstall pan-config on Debian 12

To uninstall only the pan-config package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pan-config

Uninstall pan-config And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pan-config and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pan-config

Remove pan-config Configurations and Data

To remove pan-config configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pan-config

Remove pan-config configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pan-config

Dependencies

pan-config have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pan-config package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.