How To Install veusz on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install veusz on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is veusz
veusz is:
Veusz is a 2D scientific plotting and graphing package, designed to produce publication-ready Postscript or PDF output. Veusz provides a GUI, command line and scripting interface (based on Python) to its plotting facilities. The plots are built using an object-based system to provide a consistent interface. Veusz supports reading data from CSV, text, HDF5 and FITS formats.
There are three methods to install veusz 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 veusz Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install veusz using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install veusz
Install veusz Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install veusz using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install veusz
Install veusz 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 veusz using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install veusz
How To Uninstall veusz on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the veusz package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove veusz
Uninstall veusz And Its Dependencies
To uninstall veusz and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove veusz
Remove veusz Configurations and Data
To remove veusz configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge veusz
Remove veusz configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove veusz configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge veusz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install veusz package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
