How To Install plplot-examples on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plplot-examples on Kali Linux.

What is plplot-examples

plplot-examples is:

PLplot is relatively small, portable, freely distributable, and is rich enough to satisfy most users. It has a wide range of plot types including line (linear, log), contour, 3D, fill, and almost 1000 characters (including Greek and mathematical) in its extended font set. The package is designed to make it easy to quickly get graphical output; only a handful of function calls is typically required. For more advanced use, virtually all aspects of plotting are configurable.

This package contains the examples in C, C++, and for the supported language bindings for the PLplot library.

There are three methods to install plplot-examples on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install plplot-examples Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install plplot-examples using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install plplot-examples

Install plplot-examples Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install plplot-examples using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install plplot-examples

Install plplot-examples Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install plplot-examples using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install plplot-examples

How To Uninstall plplot-examples on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the plplot-examples package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove plplot-examples

Uninstall plplot-examples And Its Dependencies

To uninstall plplot-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plplot-examples

Remove plplot-examples Configurations and Data

To remove plplot-examples configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge plplot-examples

Remove plplot-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove plplot-examples configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plplot-examples

Dependencies

plplot-examples have the following dependencies:

References

• plplot-examples website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plplot-examples package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.