How To Install grace on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grace on Debian 9.
What is grace
grace is:
Grace is a point-and-click tool that allows the user to draw X-Y plots. This is the program formerly known as Xmgr.
A few of its features are: User defined scaling, tick marks, labels, symbols, line styles, colors, polynomial regression, splines, running averages, DFT/FFT, cross/auto-correlation, batch mode for unattended plotting, and hardcopy support for PostScript, FrameMaker and several image formats.
There are three methods to install grace on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install grace Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install grace using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grace
Install grace Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grace using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grace
Install grace 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 grace using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grace
How To Uninstall grace on Debian 9
To uninstall only the grace package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grace
Uninstall grace And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grace and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grace
Remove grace Configurations and Data
To remove grace configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grace
Remove grace configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grace configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grace
Dependencies
grace have the following dependencies:
- fontconfig
- gsfonts
- xterm
- gconf2
- libc6
- libfftw3-double3
- libjpeg62-turbo
- libnetcdf11
- libpng16-16
- libx11-6
- libxbae4m
- libxm4
- libxmhtml1.1
- libxmu6
- libxpm4
- libxt6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grace package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.