How To Install octave-bim on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-bim
on Debian 10.
What is octave-bim
octave-bim is:
This package contains scripts for solving Diffusion Advection Reaction (DAR) Partial Differential Equations based on the Finite Volume Scharfetter-Gummel (FVSG) method a.k.a Box Integration Method (BIM) in Octave, a scientific computation software.
This Octave add-on package is part of the Octave-Forge project.
There are three methods to install octave-bim
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 octave-bim Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install octave-bim
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install octave-bim
Install octave-bim Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install octave-bim
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install octave-bim
Install octave-bim 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 octave-bim
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install octave-bim
How To Uninstall octave-bim on Debian 10
To uninstall only the octave-bim
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove octave-bim
Uninstall octave-bim And Its Dependencies
To uninstall octave-bim
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove octave-bim
Remove octave-bim Configurations and Data
To remove octave-bim
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge octave-bim
Remove octave-bim configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove octave-bim
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge octave-bim
Dependencies
octave-bim have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-bim
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.