How To Install dh-octave on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dh-octave
on Debian 11.
What is dh-octave
dh-octave is:
Since version 3.0 of Octave (a numerical computation software), add-ons can be installed through the pkg.m system. This package provides the infrastructure for packaging such add-ons for Debian, based on debhelper. It replaces the deprecated octave-pkg-dev package. This package contains debhelper-like scripts for building, checking and cleaning the add-on package as well as for generating the substitution variables in debian/control.
This package is intended to be used by the Debian Octave Group and should be of little interest to general users.
There are three methods to install dh-octave
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install dh-octave Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dh-octave
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dh-octave
Install dh-octave Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dh-octave
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dh-octave
Install dh-octave 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 dh-octave
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dh-octave
How To Uninstall dh-octave on Debian 11
To uninstall only the dh-octave
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dh-octave
Uninstall dh-octave And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dh-octave
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dh-octave
Remove dh-octave Configurations and Data
To remove dh-octave
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dh-octave
Remove dh-octave configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dh-octave
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dh-octave
Dependencies
dh-octave have the following dependencies:
- liboctave-dev
- debhelper-compat
- cme
- libconfig-model-dpkg-perl
- libparse-debcontrol-perl
- libmime-tools-perl
- libfile-find-rule-perl
- dh-octave-autopkgtest
- perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dh-octave
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.