How To Install r-cran-nws on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-nws
on Debian 9.
What is r-cran-nws
r-cran-nws is:
This Debian package provides support for NetWorkSpaces (NWS), a distributed computing toolkit which makes it easy to use computing clusters from within the Python and GNU R languages and scripting environments..
See http://www.ddj.com/web-development/200001971 for a recent overview article on NetWorkSpaces (albeit with a focus on use from Python).
There are three methods to install r-cran-nws
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 r-cran-nws Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-nws
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-nws
Install r-cran-nws Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-nws
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-cran-nws
Install r-cran-nws 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 r-cran-nws
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-nws
How To Uninstall r-cran-nws on Debian 9
To uninstall only the r-cran-nws
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-cran-nws
Uninstall r-cran-nws And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-cran-nws
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-cran-nws
Remove r-cran-nws Configurations and Data
To remove r-cran-nws
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-nws
Remove r-cran-nws configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-cran-nws
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-nws
Dependencies
r-cran-nws have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-nws
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.