How To Install octave-miscellaneous on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-miscellaneous on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is octave-miscellaneous
octave-miscellaneous is:
This package provides miscellaneous tools for Octave, a numerical computation program. Included are functions to create a LaTeX file from a comma separated data file (csv2latex), map matrices and cells (map), a match filter that resembles the filter in Python (match) and many more.
This Octave add-on package is part of the Octave-Forge project.
There are three methods to install octave-miscellaneous 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-miscellaneous 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-miscellaneous using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install octave-miscellaneous
Install octave-miscellaneous Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install octave-miscellaneous using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install octave-miscellaneous
Install octave-miscellaneous 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-miscellaneous using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install octave-miscellaneous
How To Uninstall octave-miscellaneous on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the octave-miscellaneous package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove octave-miscellaneous
Uninstall octave-miscellaneous And Its Dependencies
To uninstall octave-miscellaneous and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove octave-miscellaneous
Remove octave-miscellaneous Configurations and Data
To remove octave-miscellaneous configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge octave-miscellaneous
Remove octave-miscellaneous configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove octave-miscellaneous configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge octave-miscellaneous
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-miscellaneous package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
