How To Install octave-io on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-io
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is octave-io
octave-io is:
This package provides functions to input/output data in different formats in Octave, a numerical computation software. It contains functions to add variables to existing save files (append_save), read and write matrixes to a text file (dlmwrite, csvread, csvwrite) and read Excel spreadsheet (xlsread) and OpenDocument spreadsheet (odsread).
This Octave add-on package is part of the Octave-Forge project.
There are three methods to install octave-io
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-io 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-io
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install octave-io
Install octave-io Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install octave-io
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install octave-io
Install octave-io 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-io
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install octave-io
How To Uninstall octave-io on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the octave-io
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove octave-io
Uninstall octave-io And Its Dependencies
To uninstall octave-io
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove octave-io
Remove octave-io Configurations and Data
To remove octave-io
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge octave-io
Remove octave-io configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove octave-io
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge octave-io
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-io
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.