How To Install openmotor on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openmotor
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is openmotor
openmotor is:
openMotor is an open-source internal ballistics simulator for rocket motor experimenters. The software produces estimates of a rocket motor’s chamber pressure and thrust based on input such as propellant properties and grain geometry. It uses the Fast Marching Method to determine how a propellant grain regresses, which allows the use of arbitrary core geometries.
Current Features:
- Metric and imperial units
- Support for common grain geometries such as BATES, Finocyl, Star and more
- Loading custom grain geometry from DXF files
- A propellant editor that allows the user to enter the properties of as many propellants as they wish
- The grain editor displays how a grain will regress to cut down on the guesswork involved in tweaking geometry
- ENG file exporting
- Burnsim importing and exporting
- A UI that supports saving and loading designs along with undo and redo.
Planned Features:
- Erosivity simulation
- Detailed output of every calculated parameter at any time and position along the motor
There are three methods to install openmotor
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 openmotor Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install openmotor
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openmotor
Install openmotor Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openmotor
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openmotor
Install openmotor 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 openmotor
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openmotor
How To Uninstall openmotor on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the openmotor
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openmotor
Uninstall openmotor And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openmotor
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openmotor
Remove openmotor Configurations and Data
To remove openmotor
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openmotor
Remove openmotor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openmotor
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openmotor
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openmotor
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.