How To Install sciplot1 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sciplot1 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is sciplot1
sciplot1 is:
The SciPlot Widget is a widget capable of plotting Cartesian or polar graphs, including logarithmic axes in Cartesian plots. The widget is subclassed directly from the Core widget class, which means that it does not depend upon any other widget set. It may be freely used with Athena, Motif, or the Open Look/Xview widget sets. (There is optional Motif support that causes the widget to be subclassed from XmPrimitive. See the man page.)
Features provided in the widget include automatic scaling, legend drawing, axis labeling, PostScript output, multiple plotted lines, color support, user font specification, dashed lines, symbols drawn at points, logarithmic scales on one or both axes in Cartesian plots, and degrees or radians as angles in polar plots.
There are three methods to install sciplot1 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 sciplot1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sciplot1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sciplot1
Install sciplot1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sciplot1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sciplot1
Install sciplot1 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 sciplot1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sciplot1
How To Uninstall sciplot1 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the sciplot1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sciplot1
Uninstall sciplot1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sciplot1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sciplot1
Remove sciplot1 Configurations and Data
To remove sciplot1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sciplot1
Remove sciplot1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sciplot1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sciplot1
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sciplot1 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
