How To Install octave-linear-algebra on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-linear-algebra on Debian 11.
What is octave-linear-algebra
octave-linear-algebra is:
This package provides additional functions to work on linear algebra code in Octave, a numerical computation software. This package includies general singular value methods to factorize a matrix (bicg), function to calculate the condition numbers of eigenvalues of a matrix (condeig), a matrix equivalent of the Octave function name (funm) and trigonometric/hyperbolic functions for square matrixes.
This Octave add-on package is part of the Octave-Forge project.
There are three methods to install octave-linear-algebra on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install octave-linear-algebra Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install octave-linear-algebra using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install octave-linear-algebra
Install octave-linear-algebra Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install octave-linear-algebra using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install octave-linear-algebra
Install octave-linear-algebra 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 octave-linear-algebra using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install octave-linear-algebra
How To Uninstall octave-linear-algebra on Debian 11
To uninstall only the octave-linear-algebra package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove octave-linear-algebra
Uninstall octave-linear-algebra And Its Dependencies
To uninstall octave-linear-algebra and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove octave-linear-algebra
Remove octave-linear-algebra Configurations and Data
To remove octave-linear-algebra configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge octave-linear-algebra
Remove octave-linear-algebra configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove octave-linear-algebra configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge octave-linear-algebra
Dependencies
octave-linear-algebra have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-linear-algebra package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
