How To Install scilab-cli on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install scilab-cli on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is scilab-cli
scilab-cli is:
Scilab is a matrix-based scientific software package. Scilab contains hundreds of built-in mathematical functions, rich data structures (including polynomials, rationals, linear systems, lists, etc…) and comes with a number of specific toolboxes for control, signal processing, …
This package provides Scilab as Command Line Interpreter (CLI). This package provides Scilab as a computing engine or script interpreter. Please install the package “scilab” to have all features.
There are three methods to install scilab-cli on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install scilab-cli Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install scilab-cli using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install scilab-cli
Install scilab-cli Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install scilab-cli using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install scilab-cli
Install scilab-cli 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 scilab-cli using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install scilab-cli
How To Uninstall scilab-cli on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the scilab-cli package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove scilab-cli
Uninstall scilab-cli And Its Dependencies
To uninstall scilab-cli and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove scilab-cli
Remove scilab-cli Configurations and Data
To remove scilab-cli configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge scilab-cli
Remove scilab-cli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove scilab-cli configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge scilab-cli
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install scilab-cli package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
