How To Install gnuplot-doc on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot-doc on Debian 12.
What is gnuplot-doc
gnuplot-doc 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.
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 the additional documentation.
There are three methods to install gnuplot-doc on Debian 12. 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-doc 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-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnuplot-doc
Install gnuplot-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnuplot-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnuplot-doc
Install gnuplot-doc 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 gnuplot-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnuplot-doc
How To Uninstall gnuplot-doc on Debian 12
To uninstall only the gnuplot-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnuplot-doc
Uninstall gnuplot-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnuplot-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnuplot-doc
Remove gnuplot-doc Configurations and Data
To remove gnuplot-doc configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnuplot-doc
Remove gnuplot-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnuplot-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnuplot-doc
Dependencies
gnuplot-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot-doc package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.