How To Install python-stfio on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-stfio
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-stfio
python-stfio is:
The stfio module allows you to read common electrophysiology file formats from Python. Axon binaries (abf), Axon text (atf), HEKA (dat), CFS (dat/cfs), Axograph (axgd/axgx) are currently supported.
There are three methods to install python-stfio
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-stfio 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-stfio
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-stfio
Install python-stfio Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-stfio
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-stfio
Install python-stfio 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-stfio
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-stfio
How To Uninstall python-stfio on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-stfio
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-stfio
Uninstall python-stfio And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-stfio
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-stfio
Remove python-stfio Configurations and Data
To remove python-stfio
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-stfio
Remove python-stfio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-stfio
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-stfio
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-stfio
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.