How To Install astrometry.net on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install astrometry.net on Ubuntu.

What is `astrometry.net`

astrometry.net is:

The astrometry engine will take any image and return the astrometry world coordinate system (WCS), a standards-based description of the transformation between image coordinates and sky coordinates.

There are three methods to install astrometry.net on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install astrometry.net Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install astrometry.net using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install astrometry.net

Install astrometry.net Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install astrometry.net using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install astrometry.net

Install astrometry.net 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 astrometry.net using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install astrometry.net

How To Uninstall astrometry.net on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the astrometry.net package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove astrometry.net

Uninstall astrometry.net And Its Dependencies

To uninstall astrometry.net and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove astrometry.net

Remove astrometry.net Configurations and Data

To remove astrometry.net configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge astrometry.net

Remove astrometry.net configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove astrometry.net configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge astrometry.net

Dependencies

astrometry.net have the following dependencies:

References

astrometry.net website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install astrometry.net package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.