How To Install psychtoolbox-3-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install psychtoolbox-3-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is psychtoolbox-3-common
psychtoolbox-3-common is:
Psychophysics Toolbox Version 3 (PTB-3) is a free set of Matlab and GNU/Octave functions for vision research. It makes it easy to synthesize and show accurately controlled visual and auditory stimuli and interact with the observer.
The Psychophysics Toolbox interfaces between Matlab or Octave and the computer hardware. The Psychtoolbox’s core routines provide access to the display frame buffer and color lookup table, allow synchronization with the vertical retrace, support millisecond timing, allow access to OpenGL commands, and facilitate the collection of observer responses. Ancillary routines support common needs like color space transformations and the QUEST threshold seeking algorithm.
This package contains architecture independent files (such as .m scripts)
There are three methods to install psychtoolbox-3-common 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 psychtoolbox-3-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install psychtoolbox-3-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install psychtoolbox-3-common
Install psychtoolbox-3-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install psychtoolbox-3-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install psychtoolbox-3-common
Install psychtoolbox-3-common 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 psychtoolbox-3-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install psychtoolbox-3-common
How To Uninstall psychtoolbox-3-common on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the psychtoolbox-3-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove psychtoolbox-3-common
Uninstall psychtoolbox-3-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall psychtoolbox-3-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove psychtoolbox-3-common
Remove psychtoolbox-3-common Configurations and Data
To remove psychtoolbox-3-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge psychtoolbox-3-common
Remove psychtoolbox-3-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove psychtoolbox-3-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge psychtoolbox-3-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install psychtoolbox-3-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
