How To Install python3-bumps on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-bumps on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python3-bumps
python3-bumps is:
Bumps is a set of routines for curve fitting and uncertainty analysis from a Bayesian perspective. In addition to traditional optimizers which search for the best minimum they can find in the search space, bumps provides uncertainty analysis which explores all viable minima and finds confidence intervals on the parameters based on uncertainty in the measured values. Bumps has been used for systems of up to 100 parameters with tight constraints on the parameters. Full uncertainty analysis requires hundreds of thousands of function evaluations, which is only feasible for cheap functions, systems with many processors, or lots of patience.
Bumps includes several traditional local optimizers such as Nelder-Mead simplex, BFGS and differential evolution. Bumps uncertainty analysis uses Markov chain Monte Carlo to explore the parameter space. Although it was created for curve fitting problems, Bumps can explore any probability density function, such as those defined by PyMC. In particular, the bumps uncertainty analysis works well with correlated parameters.
Bumps can be used as a library within your own applications, or as a framework for fitting, complete with a graphical user interface to manage your models.
This package installs the library for Python 3.
There are three methods to install python3-bumps 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 python3-bumps 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-bumps using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-bumps
Install python3-bumps Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-bumps using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-bumps
Install python3-bumps 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-bumps using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-bumps
How To Uninstall python3-bumps on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python3-bumps package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-bumps
Uninstall python3-bumps And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-bumps and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-bumps
Remove python3-bumps Configurations and Data
To remove python3-bumps configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-bumps
Remove python3-bumps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-bumps configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-bumps
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-bumps package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
