Install/Test/Uninstall - Ubuntu/Debian

Install

#installs exodus-cli, libexodus-perl, libexodus-python, libpgexodus and postgresql
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install exodus

#additional options
sudo apt-get install libexodus-php \
                     libexodus-java \
                     libexodus-csharp \
                     libexodus-c++

Testing

testsort
listfiles

#python one liner to write a multivalue database record (after creating xyzfile)
createfile xyzfile
python -c 'from exodus import *;print var("abc123").write("xyzfile","key123")'

#perl one liner to read back the record
#the syntax is long winded because exodus isnt properly implemented in perl yet
perl -e 'use exo;$record=new exo::var(""); $filename=new exo::var("xyzfile"); $key=new exo::var("key123"); \
          print $record->read($filename,$key);print $record,"\n"'

list xyzfile
deletefile xyzfile

#find all the examples of exodus programming in various languages (some may need unzipping)
find /usr/share|grep exodus

/usr/share/doc/packages/libexodus-python/examples/test.py
/usr/share/doc/packages/libexodus-python/examples/testsort.py
/usr/share/doc/packages/libexodus-perl/examples/test.pl

Upgrade

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Uninstall

sudo apt-get autoremove exodus.*