How To Install spykeviewer on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spykeviewer
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is spykeviewer
spykeviewer is:
Spyke Viewer is a multi-platform GUI application for navigating, analyzing and visualizing electrophysiological datasets. Based on the Neo framework, it works with a wide variety of data formats. Spyke Viewer includes an integrated Python console and a plugin system for custom analyses and plots.
There are three methods to install spykeviewer
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 spykeviewer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install spykeviewer
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spykeviewer
Install spykeviewer Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spykeviewer
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spykeviewer
Install spykeviewer 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 spykeviewer
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spykeviewer
How To Uninstall spykeviewer on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the spykeviewer
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spykeviewer
Uninstall spykeviewer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spykeviewer
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spykeviewer
Remove spykeviewer Configurations and Data
To remove spykeviewer
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spykeviewer
Remove spykeviewer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spykeviewer
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spykeviewer
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spykeviewer
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.