How To Install yorick-full on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yorick-full on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is yorick-full
yorick-full is:
Yorick is an interpreted programming language for:
- scientific simulations or calculations
- postprocessing or steering large simulation codes
- interactive scientific graphics
- reading, writing, and translating large files of numbers
The yorick-full metapackage installs Yorick together with the full set of add-ons packaged for Debian.
You may prefer to only install the yorick package and cherry-pick the yorick-* add-ons you need.
If you need MPY, the MPI parallel version of Yorick, please install either yorick-mpy-openmpi or yorick-mpy-mpich2 in addition.
There are three methods to install yorick-full 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 yorick-full 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-full using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install yorick-full
Install yorick-full Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install yorick-full using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install yorick-full
Install yorick-full 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-full using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install yorick-full
How To Uninstall yorick-full on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the yorick-full package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove yorick-full
Uninstall yorick-full And Its Dependencies
To uninstall yorick-full and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove yorick-full
Remove yorick-full Configurations and Data
To remove yorick-full configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge yorick-full
Remove yorick-full configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove yorick-full configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yorick-full
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yorick-full package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
