How To Install plplot12-driver-qt on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plplot12-driver-qt on Debian 9.
What is plplot12-driver-qt
plplot12-driver-qt 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 provides the qt driver module for PLplot. It also provides C++ bindings to allow use of the PLplot API in qt applications.
There are three methods to install plplot12-driver-qt on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install plplot12-driver-qt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install plplot12-driver-qt using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plplot12-driver-qt
Install plplot12-driver-qt Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plplot12-driver-qt using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plplot12-driver-qt
Install plplot12-driver-qt 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 plplot12-driver-qt using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plplot12-driver-qt
How To Uninstall plplot12-driver-qt on Debian 9
To uninstall only the plplot12-driver-qt package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plplot12-driver-qt
Uninstall plplot12-driver-qt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plplot12-driver-qt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plplot12-driver-qt
Remove plplot12-driver-qt Configurations and Data
To remove plplot12-driver-qt configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plplot12-driver-qt
Remove plplot12-driver-qt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plplot12-driver-qt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plplot12-driver-qt
Dependencies
plplot12-driver-qt have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plplot12-driver-qt package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
