How To Install yorick-soy 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 yorick-soy on Ubuntu.

What is `yorick-soy`

yorick-soy is:

Sparse Operations with Yorick is a plugin for Yorick (an interpreted computer language specialized for numerical and scientific problems) that allows performing efficient operations on sparse matrices. This software is also available for the commercial language IDL.

Features:

Utilizes a sparse row-wise format optimized for fast matrix-vector multiplication
Structure implementation for user-friendly interface on the Yorick/IDL scripting level
Explicit memory handling on the scripting level
As of v1.2 portable to 64-bit computing platforms
Offers basic matrix algebra and manipulation in single or double precision
Offers scripts for solving linear systems by e.g. conjugate gradients
Offers saving of sparse structures on a common FITS format or an internal binary format. Using the FITS format makes the saved matrices portable between the IDL/Yorick distributions.

There are three methods to install yorick-soy 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 yorick-soy Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install yorick-soy

Install yorick-soy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install yorick-soy

Install yorick-soy 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 yorick-soy using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install yorick-soy

How To Uninstall yorick-soy on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the yorick-soy package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove yorick-soy

Uninstall yorick-soy And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove yorick-soy

Remove yorick-soy Configurations and Data

To remove yorick-soy configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge yorick-soy

Remove yorick-soy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yorick-soy

Dependencies

yorick-soy have the following dependencies:

References

yorick-soy website

Summary

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