How To Install science-engineering on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install science-engineering on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is science-engineering
science-engineering is:
This metapackage is part of the Debian Pure Blend “Debian Science” and installs packages related to Engineering.
Please note that there is an additional package engineering-dev which depends from packages which are useful to develop engineering related software.
There are three methods to install science-engineering 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 science-engineering 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-engineering using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install science-engineering
Install science-engineering Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install science-engineering using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install science-engineering
Install science-engineering 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 science-engineering using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install science-engineering
How To Uninstall science-engineering on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the science-engineering package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove science-engineering
Uninstall science-engineering And Its Dependencies
To uninstall science-engineering and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove science-engineering
Remove science-engineering Configurations and Data
To remove science-engineering configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge science-engineering
Remove science-engineering configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove science-engineering configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge science-engineering
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install science-engineering package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
