How To Install sasview-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sasview-doc
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 20.04. 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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sasview-doc
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.