How To Install science-physics on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install science-physics on Debian 10.
What is science-physics
science-physics is:
This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to Physics. You might also be interested in the debtag field::physics and, depending on your focus, in education-physics metapackage.
There are three methods to install science-physics on Debian 10. 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-physics 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-physics using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install science-physics
Install science-physics Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install science-physics using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install science-physics
Install science-physics 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-physics using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install science-physics
How To Uninstall science-physics on Debian 10
To uninstall only the science-physics package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove science-physics
Uninstall science-physics And Its Dependencies
To uninstall science-physics and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove science-physics
Remove science-physics Configurations and Data
To remove science-physics configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge science-physics
Remove science-physics configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove science-physics configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge science-physics
Dependencies
science-physics have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install science-physics package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.