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