How To Install gnuplot-nox on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot-nox on Debian 10.
What is gnuplot-nox
gnuplot-nox 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. The QT-output is packaged in gnuplot-qt.
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 is for working without an X server.
There are three methods to install gnuplot-nox 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 gnuplot-nox 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-nox using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnuplot-nox
Install gnuplot-nox Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnuplot-nox using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnuplot-nox
Install gnuplot-nox 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-nox using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnuplot-nox
How To Uninstall gnuplot-nox on Debian 10
To uninstall only the gnuplot-nox package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnuplot-nox
Uninstall gnuplot-nox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnuplot-nox and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnuplot-nox
Remove gnuplot-nox Configurations and Data
To remove gnuplot-nox configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnuplot-nox
Remove gnuplot-nox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnuplot-nox configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnuplot-nox
Dependencies
gnuplot-nox have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot-nox package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.