How To Install sasview-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install sasview-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. sasview-doc is Small Angle Scattering Analysis (common documentation)

Introduction

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

What is sasview-doc

sasview-doc is:

SasView is a Small Angle Scattering Analysis Software Package, originally developed as part of the NSF DANSE project under the name SansView, now managed by an international collaboration of facilities.

SasView is software for the analysis of Small-Angle Scattering (SAS) data.

It fits analytic functions describing different types of material microstructure to experimental data in order to determine the shape, size and degree of ordering.

SasView also includes tools for calculating scattering length densities, slit sizes, resolution, fringe thicknesses/d-spacings, the (Porod) invariant (’total scattering’), and distance distribution functions.

This is the common documentation package.

There are three methods to install sasview-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 sasview-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 sasview-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install sasview-doc

Install sasview-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install sasview-doc

Install sasview-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 sasview-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sasview-doc

How To Uninstall sasview-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove sasview-doc

Uninstall sasview-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sasview-doc

Remove sasview-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge sasview-doc

Remove sasview-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sasview-doc

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Summary

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