How To Install ufod on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ufod on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ufod
ufod 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).
A gobject-instrospection binding is also provided to write scripts or user interfaces.
This package contains the ufod daemon that serves computation requests from a remote master node.
There are three methods to install ufod 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 ufod Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ufod using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ufod
Install ufod Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ufod using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ufod
Install ufod 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 ufod using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ufod
How To Uninstall ufod on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ufod package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ufod
Uninstall ufod And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ufod and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ufod
Remove ufod Configurations and Data
To remove ufod configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ufod
Remove ufod configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ufod configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ufod
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ufod package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
