How To Install electric on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install electric on Ubuntu 20.04. electric is electrical CAD system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install electric on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is electric

electric is:

Electric is a sophisticated electrical CAD system that can handle many forms of circuit design, including custom IC layout (ASICs), schematic drawing, hardware description language specifications, and electro-mechanical hybrid layout.

There are three methods to install electric 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 electric Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install electric using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install electric

Install electric Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install electric using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install electric

Install electric 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 electric using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install electric

How To Uninstall electric on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the electric package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove electric

Uninstall electric And Its Dependencies

To uninstall electric and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove electric

Remove electric Configurations and Data

To remove electric configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge electric

Remove electric configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove electric configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge electric

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install electric package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.