How To Install rivet-plugins-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install rivet-plugins-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. rivet-plugins-doc is HTML documentation for Rivet analysis plugins

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rivet-plugins-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is rivet-plugins-doc

rivet-plugins-doc is:

Rivet is a toolkit for validation of Monte Carlo event generators. Using a computationally efficient model for observable computations, Rivet provides a set of experimental analyses useful for generator sanity checks, as well as a convenient infrastructure for adding your own analysis.

This package provides HTML documentation for analysis plugins of Rivet.

There are three methods to install rivet-plugins-doc 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 rivet-plugins-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install rivet-plugins-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install rivet-plugins-doc

Install rivet-plugins-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install rivet-plugins-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install rivet-plugins-doc

Install rivet-plugins-doc 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 rivet-plugins-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rivet-plugins-doc

How To Uninstall rivet-plugins-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the rivet-plugins-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove rivet-plugins-doc

Uninstall rivet-plugins-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall rivet-plugins-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rivet-plugins-doc

Remove rivet-plugins-doc Configurations and Data

To remove rivet-plugins-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge rivet-plugins-doc

Remove rivet-plugins-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove rivet-plugins-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rivet-plugins-doc

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rivet-plugins-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.