How To Install python3-gnuplot on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-gnuplot
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python3-gnuplot
python3-gnuplot is:
Gnuplot.py is a Python module that interfaces to gnuplot, the popular plotting program. It allows you to use gnuplot from within Python to plot arrays of data from memory, data files, or mathematical functions. If you use Python to perform computations or as
glue' for numerical programs, you can use this module to plot data on the fly as they are computed. And the combination with Python makes it is easy to automate things, including to create crude
animations’ by plotting different datasets one after another.
There are three methods to install python3-gnuplot
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python3-gnuplot Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-gnuplot
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-gnuplot
Install python3-gnuplot Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-gnuplot
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-gnuplot
Install python3-gnuplot 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 python3-gnuplot
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-gnuplot
How To Uninstall python3-gnuplot on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python3-gnuplot
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-gnuplot
Uninstall python3-gnuplot And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-gnuplot
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-gnuplot
Remove python3-gnuplot Configurations and Data
To remove python3-gnuplot
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-gnuplot
Remove python3-gnuplot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-gnuplot
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-gnuplot
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-gnuplot
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.