How To Install uranium-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install uranium-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is uranium-tools
uranium-tools is:
Uranium is a Python framework for building 3D printing related applications.
It is mainly used by Cura.
This package contains related development tools and cmake scripts.
There are three methods to install uranium-tools 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 uranium-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install uranium-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install uranium-tools
Install uranium-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install uranium-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install uranium-tools
Install uranium-tools 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 uranium-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install uranium-tools
How To Uninstall uranium-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the uranium-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove uranium-tools
Uninstall uranium-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall uranium-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove uranium-tools
Remove uranium-tools Configurations and Data
To remove uranium-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge uranium-tools
Remove uranium-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove uranium-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge uranium-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install uranium-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
