How To Install vistrails on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vistrails
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is vistrails
vistrails is:
VisTrails is an open-source scientific workflow and provenance management system developed at the University of Utah that provides support for data exploration and visualization. Whereas workflows have been traditionally used to automate repetitive tasks, for applications that are exploratory in nature, such as simulations, data analysis and visualization, very little is repeated—change is the norm. As an engineer or scientist generates and evaluates hypotheses about data under study, a series of different, albeit related, workflows are created while a workflow is adjusted in an interactive process. VisTrails was designed to manage these rapidly-evolving workflows.
There are three methods to install vistrails
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vistrails Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vistrails
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vistrails
Install vistrails Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vistrails
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vistrails
Install vistrails 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 vistrails
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vistrails
How To Uninstall vistrails on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the vistrails
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vistrails
Uninstall vistrails And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vistrails
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vistrails
Remove vistrails Configurations and Data
To remove vistrails
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vistrails
Remove vistrails configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vistrails
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vistrails
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vistrails
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.