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