How To Install python3-pymca5 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 python3-pymca5 on Ubuntu.
What is python3-pymca5
python3-pymca5 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 is the Python 3 version of the package.
There are three methods to install python3-pymca5 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 python3-pymca5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-pymca5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-pymca5
Install python3-pymca5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-pymca5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-pymca5
Install python3-pymca5 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 python3-pymca5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-pymca5
How To Uninstall python3-pymca5 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the python3-pymca5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-pymca5
Uninstall python3-pymca5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-pymca5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-pymca5
Remove python3-pymca5 Configurations and Data
To remove python3-pymca5 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-pymca5
Remove python3-pymca5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-pymca5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-pymca5
Dependencies
python3-pymca5 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-pymca5 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.