How To Install gnuplot-x11 on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot-x11 on Debian 11.
What is gnuplot-x11
gnuplot-x11 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 terminal driver that enables gnuplot to plot images interactively under X11.
There are three methods to install gnuplot-x11 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 gnuplot-x11 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-x11 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnuplot-x11
Install gnuplot-x11 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnuplot-x11 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnuplot-x11
Install gnuplot-x11 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-x11 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnuplot-x11
How To Uninstall gnuplot-x11 on Debian 11
To uninstall only the gnuplot-x11 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnuplot-x11
Uninstall gnuplot-x11 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnuplot-x11 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnuplot-x11
Remove gnuplot-x11 Configurations and Data
To remove gnuplot-x11 configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnuplot-x11
Remove gnuplot-x11 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnuplot-x11 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnuplot-x11
Dependencies
gnuplot-x11 have the following dependencies:
- gnuplot-data
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libedit2
- libgcc-s1
- libgd3
- libglib2.0-0
- liblua5.4-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libstdc++6
- libwxbase3.0-0v5
- libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5
- libx11-6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot-x11 package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
