How To Install yorick-curses on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yorick-curses
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is yorick-curses
yorick-curses is:
Yorick-curses enables programs written in Yorick (an interpreted computer language specialized for numerical and scientific problems) to use the (n)curses library, which allows fine control of the cursor and output in a terminal session.
There are three methods to install yorick-curses
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 yorick-curses Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install yorick-curses
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install yorick-curses
Install yorick-curses Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install yorick-curses
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install yorick-curses
Install yorick-curses 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 yorick-curses
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install yorick-curses
How To Uninstall yorick-curses on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the yorick-curses
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove yorick-curses
Uninstall yorick-curses And Its Dependencies
To uninstall yorick-curses
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove yorick-curses
Remove yorick-curses Configurations and Data
To remove yorick-curses
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge yorick-curses
Remove yorick-curses configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove yorick-curses
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yorick-curses
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yorick-curses
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.