How To Install apophenia-bin on Ubuntu 20.04

Hostnbit
In this tutorial we learn how to install apophenia-bin on Ubuntu 20.04. apophenia-bin is Apophenia Statistical C Library – binary package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install apophenia-bin on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is apophenia-bin

apophenia-bin is:

The Apophenia Statistical C Library is an open source C library for
working with data sets and statistical models. It provides functions
on the same level as those of the typical stats packages (such as OLS,
probit, or singular value decomposition) but gives the user more
flexibility to be creative in model-building.

Apophenia is meant to scale well, to comfortably work with gigabyte
data sets, million-step simulations, or computationally-intensive
agent-based models.

Apophenia builds upon the GNU Scientific and SQLite libraries,
MySQL/mariaDB is also supported. The core functions are written
in C, but experience has shown them to be easy to bind in Python,
Julia, Perl, Ruby, etc. The source code is distributed under the
GNU General Public License version 2 (GPL2).

This package provides several command line utility examples.

There are three methods to install apophenia-bin on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install apophenia-bin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install apophenia-bin

Install apophenia-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install apophenia-bin

Install apophenia-bin 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 apophenia-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install apophenia-bin

How To Uninstall apophenia-bin on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the apophenia-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove apophenia-bin

Uninstall apophenia-bin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall apophenia-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove apophenia-bin

Remove apophenia-bin Configurations and Data

To remove apophenia-bin configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge apophenia-bin

Remove apophenia-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apophenia-bin

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install apophenia-bin package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.

Hostnbit

Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Menu Title
Scroll to Top