How To Install saods9 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install saods9 on Debian 9.
What is saods9
saods9 is:
SAOImage DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables, multiple frame buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms and colormaps. It provides for easy communication with external analysis tasks and is highly configurable and extensible via XPA and SAMP.
All versions and platforms support a consistent set of GUI and functional capabilities.
DS9 supports advanced features such as 2-D, 3-D and RGB frame buffers, mosaic images, tiling, blinking, geometric markers, colormap manipulation, scaling, arbitrary zoom, cropping, rotation, pan, and a variety of coordinate systems.
The GUI for DS9 is user configurable. GUI elements such as the coordinate display, panner, magnifier, horizontal and vertical graphs, button bar, and color bar can be configured via menus or the command line.
There are three methods to install saods9 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 saods9 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install saods9 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install saods9
Install saods9 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install saods9 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install saods9
Install saods9 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 saods9 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install saods9
How To Uninstall saods9 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the saods9 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove saods9
Uninstall saods9 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall saods9 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove saods9
Remove saods9 Configurations and Data
To remove saods9 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge saods9
Remove saods9 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove saods9 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge saods9
Dependencies
saods9 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install saods9 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.