How To Install ufo-filters on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ufo-filters on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ufo-filters
ufo-filters is:
The UFO data processing framework is a C library suited to build general purpose streams data processing on heterogeneous architectures such as CPUs, GPUs or clusters. It is extensively used at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for Ultra-fast X-ray Imaging (radiography, tomography and laminography).
This package contains average', backproject’, bin', blur’, buffer', calculate’, camera', clip’, contrast', crop’, denoise', duplicate’,
fftmult', fft’, filter', flatten’, flip', forwardproject’, gemm', ifft’, interpolate', loop’, measure', merge’, metaballs', monitor’,
null', opencl’, ordfilt', pad’, read', reduce’, refeed', replicate’,
rescale', ringwriter’, sleep', slice’, stack', stdin’, stdout', subtract’, transpose', write’ and `zeropad’ plugins
There are three methods to install ufo-filters 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 ufo-filters Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ufo-filters using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ufo-filters
Install ufo-filters Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ufo-filters using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ufo-filters
Install ufo-filters 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 ufo-filters using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ufo-filters
How To Uninstall ufo-filters on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ufo-filters package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ufo-filters
Uninstall ufo-filters And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ufo-filters and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ufo-filters
Remove ufo-filters Configurations and Data
To remove ufo-filters configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ufo-filters
Remove ufo-filters configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ufo-filters configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ufo-filters
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ufo-filters package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
