How To Install grap on Debian 10

Learn how to install grap on Debian 10 with this tutorial. grap is program for typesetting graphs

Introduction

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

What is grap

grap is:

This is grap, an implementation of Kernighan and Bentley’s grap language for typesetting graphs. The grap preprocessor works with pic and troff (or groff).

Grap is a language for describing graphical displays of data. It provides such services as automatic scaling and labeling of axes, and for statements, if statements, and macros to facilitate user programmability. Grap is intended primarily for including graphs in documents prepared with groff or TeX, and is only marginally useful for elementary tasks in data analysis.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install grap

Install grap Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install grap

Install grap 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 grap using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install grap

How To Uninstall grap on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove grap

Uninstall grap And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove grap

Remove grap Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge grap

Remove grap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grap

Dependencies

grap have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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