How To Install plplot-doc on Debian 10

Learn how to install plplot-doc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. plplot-doc is Documentation for PLplot, a plotting library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plplot-doc on Debian 10.

What is plplot-doc

plplot-doc is:

PLplot is relatively small, portable, freely distributable, and is rich enough to satisfy most users. It has a wide range of plot types including line (linear, log), contour, 3D, fill, and almost 1000 characters (including Greek and mathematical) in its extended font set. The package is designed to make it easy to quickly get graphical output; only a handful of function calls is typically required. For more advanced use, virtually all aspects of plotting are configurable.

This package contains the HTML, PDF, PostScript and info forms of the PLplot documentation. It also contains the man pages for the API functions.

There are three methods to install plplot-doc 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 plplot-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install plplot-doc

Install plplot-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install plplot-doc

Install plplot-doc 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 plplot-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install plplot-doc

How To Uninstall plplot-doc on Debian 10

To uninstall only the plplot-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove plplot-doc

Uninstall plplot-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall plplot-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plplot-doc

Remove plplot-doc Configurations and Data

To remove plplot-doc configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge plplot-doc

Remove plplot-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plplot-doc

Dependencies

plplot-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plplot-doc package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.