How To Install liboctave4 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboctave4 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liboctave4
liboctave4 is:
Octave is a (mostly Matlab (R) compatible) high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command-line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.
This package provides the shared libraries used by the interpreter.
There are three methods to install liboctave4 on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install liboctave4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liboctave4 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liboctave4
Install liboctave4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liboctave4 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liboctave4
Install liboctave4 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install liboctave4 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liboctave4
How To Uninstall liboctave4 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liboctave4 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liboctave4
Uninstall liboctave4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liboctave4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboctave4
Remove liboctave4 Configurations and Data
To remove liboctave4 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liboctave4
Remove liboctave4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liboctave4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboctave4
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboctave4 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
