How To Install octave-phclab on Debian 12

Learn how to install octave-phclab on Debian 12 with this tutorial. octave-phclab is general-purpose solver for polynomial systems (Octave)

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.