How To Install octave-sockets on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-sockets
on Debian 9.
What is octave-sockets
octave-sockets is:
This package provides functions to work with sockets in octave, mimicking the Unix socket API (socket, connect, disconnect, gethostbyname, send, recv, bind, listen, and accept)
This Octave add-on package is part of the Octave-Forge project.
There are three methods to install octave-sockets
on Debian 9. 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-sockets 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-sockets
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install octave-sockets
Install octave-sockets Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install octave-sockets
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install octave-sockets
Install octave-sockets 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-sockets
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install octave-sockets
How To Uninstall octave-sockets on Debian 9
To uninstall only the octave-sockets
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove octave-sockets
Uninstall octave-sockets And Its Dependencies
To uninstall octave-sockets
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove octave-sockets
Remove octave-sockets Configurations and Data
To remove octave-sockets
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge octave-sockets
Remove octave-sockets configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove octave-sockets
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge octave-sockets
Dependencies
octave-sockets have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-sockets
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.