How To Install python-pymca5 on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pymca5 on Debian 9. python-pymca5 is Applications and toolkit for X-ray fluorescence analysis – Python 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pymca5 on Debian 9.

What is python-pymca5

python-pymca5 is:

PyMca is set of applications and Python libraries for analysis of X-ray fluorescence spectra.

The applications included in this package are:

  • edfviewer - Display and inspection of data files in ESRF Data Format
  • elementsinfo - Displays element specific X-ray data
  • mca2edf - Converts files from SPEC MCA format to EDF
  • peakidentifier - Displays X-ray fluorescence peaks in a given energy range
  • pymcabatch - Batch fitting of spectra
  • pymcapostbatch - Post-processing of batch fitting results
  • pymca - Interactive data-analysis
  • pymcaroitool - Region-of-interest (ROI) imaging tool

The PyMca toolkit can read data files in SPEC, ESRF data file (EDF), OMNIC, HDF5, AIFIRA and SupaVisio formats.

This is the Python 2 version of the package.

There are three methods to install python-pymca5 on Debian 9. 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-pymca5 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-pymca5 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-pymca5

Install python-pymca5 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python-pymca5 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python-pymca5

Install python-pymca5 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 python-pymca5 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-pymca5

How To Uninstall python-pymca5 on Debian 9

To uninstall only the python-pymca5 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-pymca5

Uninstall python-pymca5 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-pymca5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-pymca5

Remove python-pymca5 Configurations and Data

To remove python-pymca5 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-pymca5

Remove python-pymca5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python-pymca5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-pymca5

Dependencies

python-pymca5 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pymca5 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.