How To Install starlink-table-java on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install starlink-table-java on Debian 11. starlink-table-java is Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install starlink-table-java on Debian 11.

starlink-table-java is:

STIL is a pure Java library for generic input, output and processing of tabular data. It presents to the application programmer a view of a table which looks the same regardless of whether it came from a FITS file, a VOTable, an ASCII text file, a query on a relational database, or whatever. Thus the application doesn’t have to worry about the storage format of tables either when reading or writing them, it can concentrate on doing processing. STIL’s idea of a table is rich enough to include table and column metadata, and table cells which contain scalar or single- or multi-dimensional array data of numerical, string or other types. This is well suited to astronomical data, though it can be of use in other fields as well.

STIL comes with a range of supported input and output formats (including VOTable, FITS, SQL, ASCII, CSV, CDF, GBIN) and can be extended to cope with others.

There are three methods to install starlink-table-java on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install starlink-table-java using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install starlink-table-java

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install starlink-table-java using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install starlink-table-java

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 starlink-table-java using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install starlink-table-java

To uninstall only the starlink-table-java package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove starlink-table-java

To uninstall starlink-table-java and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove starlink-table-java

To remove starlink-table-java configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge starlink-table-java

We can use the following command to remove starlink-table-java configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge starlink-table-java

Dependencies

starlink-table-java have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install starlink-table-java package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.