How To Install python-quantities on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-quantities on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-quantities
python-quantities is:
Quantities is designed to handle arithmetic and conversions of physical quantities, which have a magnitude, dimensionality specified by various units, and possibly an uncertainty. Quantities builds on the popular numpy library and is designed to work with numpy ufuncs, many of which are already supported.
There are three methods to install python-quantities 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-quantities 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-quantities using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-quantities
Install python-quantities Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-quantities using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-quantities
Install python-quantities 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-quantities using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-quantities
How To Uninstall python-quantities on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-quantities package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-quantities
Uninstall python-quantities And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-quantities and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-quantities
Remove python-quantities Configurations and Data
To remove python-quantities configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-quantities
Remove python-quantities configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-quantities configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-quantities
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-quantities package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
