How To Install python3-ase on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-ase
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python3-ase
python3-ase is:
ASE is an Atomic Simulation Environment written in the Python programming language with the aim of setting up, stearing, and analyzing atomic simulations. ASE is part of CAMPOS, the CAMP Open Source project.
ASE contains Python interfaces to several different electronic structure codes including Abinit, Asap, Dacapo, Elk, GPAW and SIESTA.
This package provides the Python 3 modules.
There are three methods to install python3-ase
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python3-ase Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-ase
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-ase
Install python3-ase Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-ase
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-ase
Install python3-ase 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 python3-ase
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-ase
How To Uninstall python3-ase on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python3-ase
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-ase
Uninstall python3-ase And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-ase
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-ase
Remove python3-ase Configurations and Data
To remove python3-ase
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-ase
Remove python3-ase configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-ase
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-ase
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-ase
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.