How To Install octave-financial on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-financial on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is octave-financial
octave-financial is:
This package provides Monte Carlo simulation, options pricing routines, financial manipulation, plotting functions and additional date manipulation tools for Octave. It also provides functions to calculate taxed rates, relative strength index, positive volume index, modified internal rate of return amongs many more.
This Octave add-on package is part of the Octave-Forge project.
There are three methods to install octave-financial 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-financial 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-financial using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install octave-financial
Install octave-financial Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install octave-financial using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install octave-financial
Install octave-financial 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-financial using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install octave-financial
How To Uninstall octave-financial on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the octave-financial package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove octave-financial
Uninstall octave-financial And Its Dependencies
To uninstall octave-financial and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove octave-financial
Remove octave-financial Configurations and Data
To remove octave-financial configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge octave-financial
Remove octave-financial configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove octave-financial configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge octave-financial
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-financial package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
