How To Install octave-general on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-general
on Debian 10.
What is octave-general
octave-general is:
This package provides additional general functions for Octave, a numerical computation software. It contains functions to transpose complex matrixes (ctranspose), check if a string is sorted (issorted), take the non-conjugate transpose of a matrix (transpose), and a function to generate a symmetric matrix from the lower triangular elements of a vector (unvech), among others.
This Octave add-on package is part of the Octave-Forge project.
There are three methods to install octave-general
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-general 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-general
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install octave-general
Install octave-general Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install octave-general
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install octave-general
Install octave-general 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-general
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install octave-general
How To Uninstall octave-general on Debian 10
To uninstall only the octave-general
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove octave-general
Uninstall octave-general And Its Dependencies
To uninstall octave-general
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove octave-general
Remove octave-general Configurations and Data
To remove octave-general
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge octave-general
Remove octave-general configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove octave-general
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge octave-general
Dependencies
octave-general have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-general
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.