How To Install geg on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geg
on Debian 10.
What is geg
geg is:
geg is a very simple utility for parsing and plotting 2D-functions, eg f(x) = 3 + sin(x), and much more complicated functions of course. It is written with GTK+ and provides a neat, configurable user interface.
There are three methods to install geg
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install geg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install geg
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install geg
Install geg Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install geg
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install geg
Install geg 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 geg
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install geg
How To Uninstall geg on Debian 10
To uninstall only the geg
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove geg
Uninstall geg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall geg
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove geg
Remove geg Configurations and Data
To remove geg
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge geg
Remove geg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove geg
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge geg
Dependencies
geg have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libx11-6
- libxext6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geg
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.