How To Install wxmaxima on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wxmaxima on Debian 10.
What is wxmaxima
wxmaxima is:
wxMaxima is a graphical user interface for the computer algebra system Maxima. It eases the use of Maxima by making most of its commands available through a menu system and by providing input dialogs for commands that require more than one argument. It also implements its own display engine that outputs mathematical symbols directly instead of depicting them with ASCII characters.
wxMaxima also features 2D and 3D inline plots, simple animations, mixing of text and mathematical calculations to create documents, exporting of input and output to TeX, and a browser for Maxima’s manual including command index and full text searching.
There are three methods to install wxmaxima on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install wxmaxima Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wxmaxima using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wxmaxima
Install wxmaxima Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wxmaxima using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wxmaxima
Install wxmaxima 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install wxmaxima using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wxmaxima
How To Uninstall wxmaxima on Debian 10
To uninstall only the wxmaxima package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wxmaxima
Uninstall wxmaxima And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wxmaxima and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wxmaxima
Remove wxmaxima Configurations and Data
To remove wxmaxima configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wxmaxima
Remove wxmaxima configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wxmaxima configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wxmaxima
Dependencies
wxmaxima have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wxmaxima package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.