How To Install tclspice on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tclspice
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tclspice
tclspice is:
TclSpice brings NGspice simulation engine into your Tcl-scripts. All spice directives are available as Tcl functions and it features some new commands that are useful for the integration into the Tcl environment. It includes XSpice. GUI is handled by Tk using BLT vectors.
There are three methods to install tclspice
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 tclspice Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tclspice
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tclspice
Install tclspice Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tclspice
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tclspice
Install tclspice 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 tclspice
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tclspice
How To Uninstall tclspice on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tclspice
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tclspice
Uninstall tclspice And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tclspice
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tclspice
Remove tclspice Configurations and Data
To remove tclspice
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tclspice
Remove tclspice configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tclspice
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tclspice
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tclspice
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.