How To Install octave-odepkg on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-odepkg on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is octave-odepkg
octave-odepkg is:
This package provides a toolkit for Differential Equations and Initial Value Problems for Octave, a numerical computation software. It implements the Runge-Kutta, Hairer-Wanner and Cash BDF solvers of systems of differential equations.
This Octave add-on package is part of the Octave-Forge project.
There are three methods to install octave-odepkg 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-odepkg 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-odepkg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install octave-odepkg
Install octave-odepkg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install octave-odepkg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install octave-odepkg
Install octave-odepkg 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-odepkg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install octave-odepkg
How To Uninstall octave-odepkg on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the octave-odepkg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove octave-odepkg
Uninstall octave-odepkg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall octave-odepkg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove octave-odepkg
Remove octave-odepkg Configurations and Data
To remove octave-odepkg configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge octave-odepkg
Remove octave-odepkg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove octave-odepkg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge octave-odepkg
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-odepkg package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
