How To Install liboctave6 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboctave6 on Debian 10.
What is liboctave6
liboctave6 is:
Octave is a (mostly Matlab (R) compatible) high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command-line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.
This package provides the shared libraries used by the interpreter.
There are three methods to install liboctave6 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 liboctave6 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liboctave6 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liboctave6
Install liboctave6 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liboctave6 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liboctave6
Install liboctave6 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 liboctave6 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liboctave6
How To Uninstall liboctave6 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the liboctave6 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liboctave6
Uninstall liboctave6 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liboctave6 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboctave6
Remove liboctave6 Configurations and Data
To remove liboctave6 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liboctave6
Remove liboctave6 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liboctave6 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboctave6
Dependencies
liboctave6 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboctave6 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
