How To Install cif-linguist on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cif-linguist
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is cif-linguist
cif-linguist is:
The CIF API provides a standard C interface for reading, writing, and manipulating Crystallographic Information Files (CIFs). It is targeted in particular at CIF 2.0, but it provides support for CIF 1.1 and earlier as well.
This package contains cif_linguist, an experimental program for converting data between various versions of the CIF format.
There are three methods to install cif-linguist
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 cif-linguist Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cif-linguist
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cif-linguist
Install cif-linguist Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cif-linguist
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cif-linguist
Install cif-linguist 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 cif-linguist
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cif-linguist
How To Uninstall cif-linguist on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the cif-linguist
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cif-linguist
Uninstall cif-linguist And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cif-linguist
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cif-linguist
Remove cif-linguist Configurations and Data
To remove cif-linguist
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cif-linguist
Remove cif-linguist configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cif-linguist
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cif-linguist
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cif-linguist
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.