How To Install pulseview on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseview on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is pulseview
pulseview is:
PulseView is a GUI for sigrok that supports logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and MSOs.
It can acquire samples from a supported device and display them, load and display captures from existing sigrok *.sr files, as well as run protocol decoders and display their annotations.
There are three methods to install pulseview 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 pulseview Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pulseview using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pulseview
Install pulseview Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pulseview using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pulseview
Install pulseview 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 pulseview using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pulseview
How To Uninstall pulseview on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the pulseview package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pulseview
Uninstall pulseview And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pulseview and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pulseview
Remove pulseview Configurations and Data
To remove pulseview configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pulseview
Remove pulseview configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pulseview configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pulseview
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseview package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
