How To Install astropy-utils 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 astropy-utils on Ubuntu.

What is `astropy-utils`

astropy-utils is:

The astropy package contains core functionality and some common tools needed for performing astronomy and astrophysics research with Python.

This package contains the tools that come with astropy:

fitscheck: Detect and fix FITS standards violations
fits2bitmap: Create a bitmap file from a FITS image.
fitsdiff: Compare two FITS image files and report the differences in header keywords and data.
fitsheader: Print the header(s) of one or more FITS file(s) to the standard output in a human-readable format.
samp_hub: SAMP Hub Server.
volint: Check a VOTable file for compliance to the VOTable specification
wcslint: Check the WCS keywords in a FITS file for compliance against the standards

There are three methods to install astropy-utils 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 astropy-utils Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install astropy-utils using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install astropy-utils

Install astropy-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install astropy-utils using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install astropy-utils

Install astropy-utils 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 astropy-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install astropy-utils

How To Uninstall astropy-utils on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the astropy-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove astropy-utils

Uninstall astropy-utils And Its Dependencies

To uninstall astropy-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove astropy-utils

Remove astropy-utils Configurations and Data

To remove astropy-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge astropy-utils

Remove astropy-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove astropy-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge astropy-utils

Dependencies

astropy-utils have the following dependencies:

References

astropy-utils website

Summary

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