How To Install libkf5plotting5 on Debian 10

Learn how to install libkf5plotting5 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libkf5plotting5 is KPlotting provides classes to do plotting.

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libkf5plotting5 on Debian 10.

What is libkf5plotting5

libkf5plotting5 is:

KPlotWidget is a QWidget-derived class that provides a virtual base class for easy data-plotting. The idea behind KPlotWidget is that you only have to specify information in “data units”; i.e., the natural units of the data being plotted. KPlotWidget automatically converts everything to screen pixel units.

There are three methods to install libkf5plotting5 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 libkf5plotting5 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libkf5plotting5 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libkf5plotting5

Install libkf5plotting5 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libkf5plotting5 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libkf5plotting5

Install libkf5plotting5 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 libkf5plotting5 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libkf5plotting5

How To Uninstall libkf5plotting5 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libkf5plotting5 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libkf5plotting5

Uninstall libkf5plotting5 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libkf5plotting5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libkf5plotting5

Remove libkf5plotting5 Configurations and Data

To remove libkf5plotting5 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libkf5plotting5

Remove libkf5plotting5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libkf5plotting5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libkf5plotting5

Dependencies

libkf5plotting5 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libkf5plotting5 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.