How To Install quickplot on Debian 10

Learn how to install quickplot on Debian 10 with this tutorial. quickplot is fast interactive 2D plotter and data viewer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install quickplot on Debian 10.

What is quickplot

quickplot is:

A 2-D plotter with infinite zooming, value picking, pipe input, and unlimited plots displayed. Quickplot is meant for looking at your data quickly and of secondary importance is making static pictures of your data. It is a data viewer, not a plot editor. It reads ASCII text and sound files. It has lots of command line options, making it very shell script friendly.

There are three methods to install quickplot 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 quickplot Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install quickplot

Install quickplot Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install quickplot using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install quickplot

Install quickplot 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 quickplot using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install quickplot

How To Uninstall quickplot on Debian 10

To uninstall only the quickplot package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove quickplot

Uninstall quickplot And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove quickplot

Remove quickplot Configurations and Data

To remove quickplot configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge quickplot

Remove quickplot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge quickplot

Dependencies

quickplot have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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