How To Install octave-general on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-general on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is octave-general
octave-general is:
This package provides additional general functions for Octave, a numerical computation software. It cointains 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).
This Octave add-on package is part of the Octave-Forge project.
There are three methods to install octave-general 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-general package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
