How To Install octave-phclab on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-phclab on Debian 12.
What is octave-phclab
octave-phclab is:
PHClab is a collection of scripts to call phc from within a MATLAB or Octave session. It provides an interface to the blackbox solver for finding isolated solutions. PHClab also interfaces to the numerical irreducible decomposition, giving access to the tools to represent, factor, and intersect positive dimensional solution sets.
There are three methods to install octave-phclab on Debian 12. 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-phclab 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-phclab using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install octave-phclab
Install octave-phclab Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install octave-phclab using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install octave-phclab
Install octave-phclab 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-phclab using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install octave-phclab
How To Uninstall octave-phclab on Debian 12
To uninstall only the octave-phclab package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove octave-phclab
Uninstall octave-phclab And Its Dependencies
To uninstall octave-phclab and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove octave-phclab
Remove octave-phclab Configurations and Data
To remove octave-phclab configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge octave-phclab
Remove octave-phclab configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove octave-phclab configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge octave-phclab
Dependencies
octave-phclab have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-phclab package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.