How To Install starplot on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install starplot on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is starplot
starplot is:
StarPlot is a GTK+ based program that can be used interactively to view three-dimensional perspective charts of stars. Charts can be re-centered, rotated, or zoomed in or out with a mouse click (this can also, of course, be done via dialog boxes for more precision). Stars may be viewed (or ignored) by spectral class and absolute magnitude.
StarPlot is packaged with starconvert, a utility that converts line-oriented stellar data records to StarPlot format. Most star data files available on the Internet can be converted this way if a short file describing the original file format is provided to starconvert.
There are three methods to install starplot 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 starplot Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install starplot using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install starplot
Install starplot Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install starplot using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install starplot
Install starplot 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 starplot using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install starplot
How To Uninstall starplot on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the starplot package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove starplot
Uninstall starplot And Its Dependencies
To uninstall starplot and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove starplot
Remove starplot Configurations and Data
To remove starplot configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge starplot
Remove starplot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove starplot configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge starplot
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install starplot package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
