How To Install octave-econometrics on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-econometrics on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is octave-econometrics
octave-econometrics is:
This package provides functions to work with econometrics in Octave, a numerical computation software. The functions include methods to do maximum likelihood (mle_estimate) and general method of moments (gmm_estimate) based estimations.
This Octave add-on package is part of the Octave-Forge project.
There are three methods to install octave-econometrics 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 octave-econometrics 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-econometrics using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install octave-econometrics
Install octave-econometrics Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install octave-econometrics using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install octave-econometrics
Install octave-econometrics 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 octave-econometrics using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install octave-econometrics
How To Uninstall octave-econometrics on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the octave-econometrics package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove octave-econometrics
Uninstall octave-econometrics And Its Dependencies
To uninstall octave-econometrics and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove octave-econometrics
Remove octave-econometrics Configurations and Data
To remove octave-econometrics configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge octave-econometrics
Remove octave-econometrics configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove octave-econometrics configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge octave-econometrics
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-econometrics package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
