Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install astrometry-data-2mass on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is astrometry-data-2mass
astrometry-data-2mass is:
The astrometry engine will take any image and return the astrometry
world coordinate system (WCS), a standards-based description of the
transformation between image coordinates and sky coordinates.
This package downloads all index files built from the 2MASS survey.
The installation requires a working internet connection.
There are three methods to install astrometry-data-2mass on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install astrometry-data-2mass Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install astrometry-data-2mass using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install astrometry-data-2mass
Install astrometry-data-2mass Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install astrometry-data-2mass using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install astrometry-data-2mass
Install astrometry-data-2mass 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 astrometry-data-2mass using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install astrometry-data-2mass
How To Uninstall astrometry-data-2mass on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the astrometry-data-2mass package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove astrometry-data-2mass
Uninstall astrometry-data-2mass And Its Dependencies
To uninstall astrometry-data-2mass and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove astrometry-data-2mass
Remove astrometry-data-2mass Configurations and Data
To remove astrometry-data-2mass configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge astrometry-data-2mass
Remove astrometry-data-2mass configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove astrometry-data-2mass configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge astrometry-data-2mass
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install astrometry-data-2mass package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
