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