How To Install gnuplot-data on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot-data on Kali Linux.

What is gnuplot-data

gnuplot-data is:

Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility that supports lots of output formats, including drivers for many printers, (La)TeX, (x)fig, Postscript, and so on. The X11-output is packaged in gnuplot-x11.

Data files and self-defined functions can be manipulated by the internal C-like language. Can perform smoothing, spline-fitting, or nonlinear fits, and can work with complex numbers.

This package contains data-files which are used by -nox, -x11 and -qt.

There are three methods to install gnuplot-data on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gnuplot-data Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnuplot-data

Install gnuplot-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gnuplot-data

Install gnuplot-data Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install gnuplot-data using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gnuplot-data

How To Uninstall gnuplot-data on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the gnuplot-data package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gnuplot-data

Uninstall gnuplot-data And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gnuplot-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnuplot-data

Remove gnuplot-data Configurations and Data

To remove gnuplot-data configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gnuplot-data

Remove gnuplot-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnuplot-data

Dependencies

gnuplot-data have the following dependencies:

• aglfn

References

• gnuplot-data website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot-data package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.