How To Install reprozip on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install reprozip
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is reprozip
reprozip 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 packer.
There are three methods to install reprozip
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 reprozip Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install reprozip
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install reprozip
Install reprozip Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install reprozip
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install reprozip
Install reprozip 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 reprozip
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install reprozip
How To Uninstall reprozip on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the reprozip
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove reprozip
Uninstall reprozip And Its Dependencies
To uninstall reprozip
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove reprozip
Remove reprozip Configurations and Data
To remove reprozip
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge reprozip
Remove reprozip configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove reprozip
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge reprozip
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install reprozip
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.