How To Install boinc-app-eah-brp on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc-app-eah-brp on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is boinc-app-eah-brp
boinc-app-eah-brp is:
BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is a volunteer project to have regular citizens help with their compute power to address large scientific challenges. For details on the science please inspect the project’s home page. To contribute, follow the “Add Project” selection box of the BOINC manager or use the command line interface of the BOINC client.
This package provides an executable for the Binary Pulsar Search subproject of the Einstein@Home project. Regular users would auto-download that executable provided by the scientific project maintainers. The binary provided by this package is functionally equivalent to the official one. It was however compiled on the Debian build demons. As such it is available to many more platforms than what could possibly be provided by the scientists themselves. Also, recompiling the package is likely to yield an executable well-optimized for the local machine that outperforms the official executable.
Quite some also run the Debian-provided packages for security concerns. They already decided to trust the Debian community and appreciated that executable to ship with an inspectable source tree.
There are three methods to install boinc-app-eah-brp 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 boinc-app-eah-brp Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install boinc-app-eah-brp using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install boinc-app-eah-brp
Install boinc-app-eah-brp Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install boinc-app-eah-brp using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install boinc-app-eah-brp
Install boinc-app-eah-brp 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 boinc-app-eah-brp using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install boinc-app-eah-brp
How To Uninstall boinc-app-eah-brp on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the boinc-app-eah-brp package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove boinc-app-eah-brp
Uninstall boinc-app-eah-brp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall boinc-app-eah-brp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove boinc-app-eah-brp
Remove boinc-app-eah-brp Configurations and Data
To remove boinc-app-eah-brp configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge boinc-app-eah-brp
Remove boinc-app-eah-brp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove boinc-app-eah-brp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge boinc-app-eah-brp
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc-app-eah-brp package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
