How To Install gdsiiconvert on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gdsiiconvert on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gdsiiconvert
gdsiiconvert is:
The command line tool can be used for reporting statistics on GDSII geometries and export them to other file formats, notably including the GMSH geometry format.
It is the “example application” for libGDSII which is a C++ library for working with GDSII binary data files.
This package also contains example GDSII files.
There are three methods to install gdsiiconvert on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gdsiiconvert Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gdsiiconvert using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gdsiiconvert
Install gdsiiconvert Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gdsiiconvert using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gdsiiconvert
Install gdsiiconvert 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 gdsiiconvert using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gdsiiconvert
How To Uninstall gdsiiconvert on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gdsiiconvert package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gdsiiconvert
Uninstall gdsiiconvert And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gdsiiconvert and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gdsiiconvert
Remove gdsiiconvert Configurations and Data
To remove gdsiiconvert configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gdsiiconvert
Remove gdsiiconvert configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gdsiiconvert configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gdsiiconvert
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gdsiiconvert package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
