How to Install and Uninstall astrometry.net Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 06,2024

1. Install "astrometry.net" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install astrometry.net on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                astrometry.net
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "astrometry.net" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall astrometry.net on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                astrometry.net
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the astrometry.net package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: astrometry.net
Priority: extra
Section: universe/science
Installed-Size: 5576
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Astronomy Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.67+dfsg-1
Depends: netpbm, python, python-astrometry, libastrometry0, libc6 (>= 2.15), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libcfitsio2 (>= 3.370), libgsl2, libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libnetpbm10, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libwcs5 (>= 4.8.2)
Recommends: curl, libcfitsio-bin, sextractor
Filename: pool/universe/a/astrometry.net/astrometry.net_0.67+dfsg-1_amd64.deb
Size: 906252
MD5sum: 60eb71ae6efbbc38a2c05ea95873d053
SHA1: 932308c291d8d2f5210df28e138a5777e44de504
SHA256: f140334a7f35057fe225826eaa6264ff6937a3e8bc6505ee719a7a733d51577c
Description-en: Astrometry plate solver
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.
Description-md5: 5088a1bfc88af04d691f7b897003b643
Homepage: http://www.astrometry.net
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m
Task: edubuntu-desktop-gnome