How To Install simulide 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 simulide on Ubuntu.

What is `simulide`

simulide is:

Simulide is a real time electronic circuit simulator intended for hobbist and student experimentation with simple general purpose electronic circuits and PIC, AVR and Arduino microcontroller simulations.

PIC and AVR simulation are provided by gpsim and simavr.

There are three methods to install simulide 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 simulide Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install simulide

Install simulide Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install simulide using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install simulide

Install simulide 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 simulide using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install simulide

How To Uninstall simulide on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the simulide package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove simulide

Uninstall simulide And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove simulide

Remove simulide Configurations and Data

To remove simulide configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge simulide

Remove simulide configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge simulide

Dependencies

simulide have the following dependencies:

References

simulide website

Summary

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