How To Install eso-pipelines on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eso-pipelines on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is eso-pipelines
eso-pipelines is:
In collaboration with the various instrument consortia, the Pipeline Systems Department has undertaken to implement data reduction pipelines for the most commonly used VLT/VLTI instrument modes. These data reduction pipelines have three main purposes:
Data quality control: Pipelines are used to produce the quantitative information necessary to monitor instrument performance.
Master calibration product creation: pipelines are used to produce master calibration products (e.g. combined bias frames, super-flats, wavelength dispersion solutions).
Science product creation: using pipeline-generated master calibration products, science products are produced for supported instrument modes (e.g. combined ISAAC jitter stacks; bias-corrected, flat-fielded FORS images, wavelength-calibrated UVES spectra). The accuracy of the science products can be limited both by the quality of the available master calibration products and by the algorithmic implementation of the pipelines themselves. In particular, adopted reduction strategies may not be suitable for all scientific goals.
This metapackage will install all ESO VLT pipelines along with the environments needed to run them (esorex, python-cpl).
There are three methods to install eso-pipelines 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 eso-pipelines Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install eso-pipelines using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install eso-pipelines
Install eso-pipelines Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install eso-pipelines using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install eso-pipelines
Install eso-pipelines 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 eso-pipelines using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eso-pipelines
How To Uninstall eso-pipelines on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the eso-pipelines package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove eso-pipelines
Uninstall eso-pipelines And Its Dependencies
To uninstall eso-pipelines and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove eso-pipelines
Remove eso-pipelines Configurations and Data
To remove eso-pipelines configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge eso-pipelines
Remove eso-pipelines configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove eso-pipelines configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eso-pipelines
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eso-pipelines package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.