How To Install eukleides on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install eukleides on Debian 9. eukleides is Euclidean geometry drawing language

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install eukleides on Debian 9.

What is eukleides

eukleides is:

Eukleides is a language which allows one to typeset geometric figures within a (La)TeX document. This package includes scripts to convert these figures into EPS and other formats. Eukleides uses a console interface.

There are three methods to install eukleides on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install eukleides Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install eukleides

Install eukleides Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install eukleides using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install eukleides

Install eukleides 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install eukleides using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install eukleides

How To Uninstall eukleides on Debian 9

To uninstall only the eukleides package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove eukleides

Uninstall eukleides And Its Dependencies

To uninstall eukleides and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove eukleides

Remove eukleides Configurations and Data

To remove eukleides configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge eukleides

Remove eukleides configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eukleides

Dependencies

eukleides have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install eukleides package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.