How To Install python-astroml-addons on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-astroml-addons on Ubuntu 18.04. python-astroml-addons is Python Machine Learning library for astronomy (performance addons)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-astroml-addons on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is python-astroml-addons

python-astroml-addons is:

AstroML is a Python module for machine learning and data mining built on numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, and matplotlib. It contains a growing library of statistical and machine learning routines for analyzing astronomical data in Python, loaders for several open astronomical datasets, and a large suite of examples of analyzing and visualizing astronomical datasets.

This package contains the performance add-ons of the Python 2 version of the package.

There are three methods to install python-astroml-addons 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 python-astroml-addons Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python-astroml-addons using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-astroml-addons

Install python-astroml-addons Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python-astroml-addons using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python-astroml-addons

Install python-astroml-addons 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 python-astroml-addons using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-astroml-addons

How To Uninstall python-astroml-addons on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the python-astroml-addons package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-astroml-addons

Uninstall python-astroml-addons And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-astroml-addons

Remove python-astroml-addons Configurations and Data

To remove python-astroml-addons configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-astroml-addons

Remove python-astroml-addons configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python-astroml-addons configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-astroml-addons

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Summary

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