How To Install cpl-plugin-uves on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpl-plugin-uves on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is cpl-plugin-uves
cpl-plugin-uves is:
This is the data reduction pipeline for the UVES instrument of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) from the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
UVES is a cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph designed to operate with high efficiency from the atmospheric cut-off at 300 nm to the long wavelength limit of the CCD detectors (about 1100 nm). The light beam from the telescope is split in two arms (UV to Blue, and Visual to Red) within the instrument. The two arms can be operated separately, or in parallel via a dichroic beam splitter. The resolving power is about 40,000 when a 1-arcsec slit is used. The maximum (two-pixel) resolution is 80,000 or 110,000 in the Blue- and the Red Arm, respectively.
There are three methods to install cpl-plugin-uves 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 cpl-plugin-uves Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cpl-plugin-uves using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cpl-plugin-uves
Install cpl-plugin-uves Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cpl-plugin-uves using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cpl-plugin-uves
Install cpl-plugin-uves 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 cpl-plugin-uves using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cpl-plugin-uves
How To Uninstall cpl-plugin-uves on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the cpl-plugin-uves package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cpl-plugin-uves
Uninstall cpl-plugin-uves And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cpl-plugin-uves and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cpl-plugin-uves
Remove cpl-plugin-uves Configurations and Data
To remove cpl-plugin-uves configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cpl-plugin-uves
Remove cpl-plugin-uves configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cpl-plugin-uves configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cpl-plugin-uves
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpl-plugin-uves package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
