How To Install pymca on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pymca on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is pymca
pymca is:
PyMca is set of applications and Python libraries for analysis of X-ray fluorescence spectra.
The applications included in this package are:
- edfviewer - Display and inspection of data files in ESRF Data Format
- elementsinfo - Displays element specific X-ray data
- mca2edf - Converts files from SPEC MCA format to EDF
- peakidentifier - Displays X-ray fluorescence peaks in a given energy range
- pymcabatch - Batch fitting of spectra
- pymcapostbatch - Post-processing of batch fitting results
- pymca - Interactive data-analysis
- pymcaroitool - Region-of-interest (ROI) imaging tool
The PyMca toolkit can read data files in SPEC, ESRF data file (EDF), OMNIC, HDF5, AIFIRA and SupaVisio formats.
This are the scripts of the package.
There are three methods to install pymca 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 pymca Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pymca using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pymca
Install pymca Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pymca using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pymca
Install pymca 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 pymca using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pymca
How To Uninstall pymca on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the pymca package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pymca
Uninstall pymca And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pymca and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pymca
Remove pymca Configurations and Data
To remove pymca configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pymca
Remove pymca configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pymca configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pymca
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pymca package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
