How To Install eegdev-plugins-free on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eegdev-plugins-free on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is eegdev-plugins-free
eegdev-plugins-free is:
eegdev is a library that provides a unified interface for accessing various EEG (and other biosignals) acquisition systems. This interface has been designed to be both flexible and efficient. The device specific part is implemented by the mean of plugins which makes adding new device backend fairly easy even if the library does not support them yet officially.
The core library not only provides to users a unified and consistent interfaces to the acquisition device but it also provides many functionalities to the device backends (plugins) ranging from configuration to data casting and scaling making writing new device backend an easy task.
This library is particularly useful to handle the acquisition part of a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) or any realtime multi-electrode acquisition in neurophysiological research.
This package contains the devices plugins that depends only on free components.
There are three methods to install eegdev-plugins-free 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 eegdev-plugins-free Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install eegdev-plugins-free using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install eegdev-plugins-free
Install eegdev-plugins-free Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install eegdev-plugins-free using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install eegdev-plugins-free
Install eegdev-plugins-free 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 eegdev-plugins-free using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eegdev-plugins-free
How To Uninstall eegdev-plugins-free on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the eegdev-plugins-free package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove eegdev-plugins-free
Uninstall eegdev-plugins-free And Its Dependencies
To uninstall eegdev-plugins-free and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove eegdev-plugins-free
Remove eegdev-plugins-free Configurations and Data
To remove eegdev-plugins-free configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge eegdev-plugins-free
Remove eegdev-plugins-free configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove eegdev-plugins-free configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eegdev-plugins-free
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eegdev-plugins-free package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
