How To Install reprounzip on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install reprounzip on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is reprounzip
reprounzip is:
ReproZip is a tool aimed at simplifying the process of creating reproducible experiments from command-line executions, a frequently-used common denominator in computational science.
It tracks operating system calls and creates a package that contains all the binaries, files and dependencies required to run a given command on the author’s computational environment (packing step). A reviewer can then extract the experiment in his environment to reproduce the results (unpacking step).
This package provides the ReproZip unpacker.
There are three methods to install reprounzip 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 reprounzip Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install reprounzip using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install reprounzip
Install reprounzip Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install reprounzip using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install reprounzip
Install reprounzip 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 reprounzip using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install reprounzip
How To Uninstall reprounzip on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the reprounzip package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove reprounzip
Uninstall reprounzip And Its Dependencies
To uninstall reprounzip and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove reprounzip
Remove reprounzip Configurations and Data
To remove reprounzip configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge reprounzip
Remove reprounzip configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove reprounzip configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge reprounzip
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install reprounzip package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
