How To Install ipe on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipe on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is ipe
ipe is:
Ipe supports making small figures for inclusion into LaTeX documents as well as making multi-page PDF presentations Ipe’s main features are:
- Entry of text as LaTeX source code. This makes it easy to enter mathematical expressions, and to reuse the LaTeX-macros of the main document. In the display text is displayed as it will appear in the figure.
- Produces pure Postscript/PDF, including the text. Ipe converts the LaTeX-source to PDF or Postscript when the file is saved.
- It is easy to align objects with respect to each other (for instance, to place a point on the intersection of two lines, or to draw a circle through three given points) using various snapping modes.
- Users can provide ipelets (Ipe plug-ins) to add functionality to Ipe. This way, Ipe can be extended for each task at hand.
- The text model is based on Unicode, and has been tested with Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.
Package lua5.3 is recommended if using Ipe with LaTeX.
Package texlive-latex-recommended enables unicode text entry (for accented characters).
There are three methods to install ipe on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ipe Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ipe using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ipe
Install ipe Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ipe using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ipe
Install ipe 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 ipe using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ipe
How To Uninstall ipe on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the ipe package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ipe
Uninstall ipe And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ipe and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ipe
Remove ipe Configurations and Data
To remove ipe configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ipe
Remove ipe configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ipe configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ipe
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipe package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
