How To Install xfig on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xfig
on Debian 11.
What is xfig
xfig is:
XFig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects interactively in an X window. The resulting pictures can be saved. If the fig2dev program is installed, which is contained in the fig2dev package, the pictures can be printed on postscript printers or converted to a variety of other formats (e.g. to allow inclusion in LaTeX documents or web pages).
This package contains the xfig program itself.
You should think about installing the fig2dev package to export the graphics to several common formats. You should also think about installing xfig-doc, which contains the documentation and xfig-libs, which contains several clip art libraries.
There are three methods to install xfig
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install xfig Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xfig
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xfig
Install xfig Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xfig
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xfig
Install xfig 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 xfig
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xfig
How To Uninstall xfig on Debian 11
To uninstall only the xfig
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xfig
Uninstall xfig And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xfig
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xfig
Remove xfig Configurations and Data
To remove xfig
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xfig
Remove xfig configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xfig
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xfig
Dependencies
xfig have the following dependencies:
- fig2dev
- sensible-utils
- xdg-utils
- libc6
- libgs9
- libjpeg62-turbo
- libpng16-16
- libtiff5
- libx11-6
- libxi6
- libxpm4
- libxt6
- xaw3dg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xfig
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.