How To Install liboctave7 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboctave7 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is liboctave7
liboctave7 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 liboctave7 on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install liboctave7 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liboctave7 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liboctave7
Install liboctave7 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liboctave7 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liboctave7
Install liboctave7 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install liboctave7 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liboctave7
How To Uninstall liboctave7 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the liboctave7 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liboctave7
Uninstall liboctave7 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liboctave7 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboctave7
Remove liboctave7 Configurations and Data
To remove liboctave7 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liboctave7
Remove liboctave7 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liboctave7 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboctave7
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboctave7 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
