How To Install science-chemistry on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install science-chemistry on Debian 9.

What is science-chemistry

science-chemistry is:

This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to Chemistry. You might also be interested in the field::chemistry debtag and, depending on your focus, in the education-chemistry metapackage.

There are three methods to install science-chemistry 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 science-chemistry Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install science-chemistry using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install science-chemistry

Install science-chemistry Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install science-chemistry

Install science-chemistry 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 science-chemistry using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install science-chemistry

How To Uninstall science-chemistry on Debian 9

To uninstall only the science-chemistry package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove science-chemistry

Uninstall science-chemistry And Its Dependencies

To uninstall science-chemistry and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove science-chemistry

Remove science-chemistry Configurations and Data

To remove science-chemistry configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge science-chemistry

Remove science-chemistry configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge science-chemistry

Dependencies

science-chemistry have the following dependencies:

• science-tasks
• science-config

References

• science-chemistry website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install science-chemistry package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.