How To Install wims on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wims on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is wims
wims is:
The WWW Interactive Multipurpose Server is an educational platform originally developed for mathematics but now also supporting subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology, and languages.
WIMS features a rich set of resources and exercises either for autodidactical use or for training classes, including:
- exercises with automatic feedback and correction, allowing the learners to work at their own pace;
- interactive exercises with randomly assigned data, allowing the learners to work on the same type of exercise but with different data and as often as they wish;
- exercises with an automatic scoring system, which enhances learner motivation;
- user-friendly graphics and calculation tools;
- courses and documents with hyperlinks to the exercise pool; examples in the courses can be made random, so the student can get more than one instance of an illustration for tricky concepts;
- support for exams with pre-published contents. As each individual exam will have randomly chosen data, training is possible but writing each response in advance is not.
This package contains the WIMS FastCGI server, serving Open Exercise Format (OEF) documents. OEF is a very high-level language which allows authors to focus on pedagogical issues.
There are three methods to install wims 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 wims Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wims using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wims
Install wims Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wims using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wims
Install wims 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 wims using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wims
How To Uninstall wims on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the wims package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wims
Uninstall wims And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wims and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wims
Remove wims Configurations and Data
To remove wims configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wims
Remove wims configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wims configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wims
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wims package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
