How To Install edfbrowser on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install edfbrowser
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is edfbrowser
edfbrowser is:
EDFbrowser is a viewer for medical timeseries storage files containing data such as EEG, EMG, and ECG signals. It supports EDF(+) and BDF(+) file formats. Apart from viewing the files, it also supports some editing operations and can convert the biomedical files to other formats.
There are three methods to install edfbrowser
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 edfbrowser Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install edfbrowser
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install edfbrowser
Install edfbrowser Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install edfbrowser
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install edfbrowser
Install edfbrowser 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 edfbrowser
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install edfbrowser
How To Uninstall edfbrowser on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the edfbrowser
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove edfbrowser
Uninstall edfbrowser And Its Dependencies
To uninstall edfbrowser
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove edfbrowser
Remove edfbrowser Configurations and Data
To remove edfbrowser
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge edfbrowser
Remove edfbrowser configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove edfbrowser
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge edfbrowser
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install edfbrowser
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.