How To Install totalopenstation on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install totalopenstation on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is totalopenstation
totalopenstation is:
Total Open Station (TOPS for friends) is a free software program for downloading and processing data from total station devices.
This is a task which is usually done by proprietary, dedicated and Windows™-only software, but TOPS is different by nature, because:
- it is free software released under the GNU GPLv3 license;
- it works on any operating system, including mobile platforms like OpenMoko;
- it is designed to support as many devices and formats as possible, all within the same program, opposed to having one program per device.
Every model has its own quirks, but TOPS uses a modular structure and keeps the downloading of data logically separated from its processing, thus enabling exporting data to a variety of output formats, even at a later moment. Archiving of raw data is made easy by using plain text files.
There are three methods to install totalopenstation 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 totalopenstation Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install totalopenstation using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install totalopenstation
Install totalopenstation Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install totalopenstation using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install totalopenstation
Install totalopenstation 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 totalopenstation using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install totalopenstation
How To Uninstall totalopenstation on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the totalopenstation package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove totalopenstation
Uninstall totalopenstation And Its Dependencies
To uninstall totalopenstation and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove totalopenstation
Remove totalopenstation Configurations and Data
To remove totalopenstation configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge totalopenstation
Remove totalopenstation configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove totalopenstation configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge totalopenstation
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install totalopenstation package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
