How To Install circuit-macros on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install circuit-macros on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is circuit-macros
circuit-macros is:
Circuit Macros is a set of macros designed by Dwight Aplevich for drawing high quality electric circuits to include in TeX, LaTeX, web or other similar documents.
There are three methods to install circuit-macros on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install circuit-macros Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install circuit-macros using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install circuit-macros
Install circuit-macros Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install circuit-macros using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install circuit-macros
Install circuit-macros 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install circuit-macros using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install circuit-macros
How To Uninstall circuit-macros on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the circuit-macros package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove circuit-macros
Uninstall circuit-macros And Its Dependencies
To uninstall circuit-macros and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove circuit-macros
Remove circuit-macros Configurations and Data
To remove circuit-macros configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge circuit-macros
Remove circuit-macros configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove circuit-macros configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge circuit-macros
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install circuit-macros package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
