How To Install gnuplot on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot on Kali Linux.

What is gnuplot

gnuplot is:

Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility that supports lots of output formats, including drivers for many printers, (La)TeX, (x)fig, Postscript, and so on. The X11-output is packaged in gnuplot-x11.

Data files and self-defined functions can be manipulated by the internal C-like language. Can perform smoothing, spline-fitting, or nonlinear fits, and can work with complex numbers.

This metapackage is to install a full-featured gnuplot (-qt, -x11 or -nox).

There are three methods to install gnuplot on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gnuplot Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gnuplot using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gnuplot

Install gnuplot Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gnuplot using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gnuplot

Install gnuplot Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install gnuplot using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gnuplot

How To Uninstall gnuplot on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the gnuplot package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gnuplot

Uninstall gnuplot And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gnuplot and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnuplot

Remove gnuplot Configurations and Data

To remove gnuplot configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gnuplot

Remove gnuplot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gnuplot configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnuplot

Dependencies

gnuplot have the following dependencies:

• gnuplot-qt

References

• gnuplot website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.