How To Install gnuplot-qt on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot-qt on Ubuntu.

What is `gnuplot-qt`

gnuplot-qt 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.

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 package contains the terminal driver that enables gnuplot to plot images interactively using Qt.

The package provides gnuplot-x11 and gnuplot-nox terminals plus an additional QT-terminal for output.

There are three methods to install gnuplot-qt on Ubuntu. 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-qt 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-qt using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gnuplot-qt

Install gnuplot-qt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gnuplot-qt

Install gnuplot-qt 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 gnuplot-qt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gnuplot-qt

How To Uninstall gnuplot-qt on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove gnuplot-qt

Uninstall gnuplot-qt And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnuplot-qt

Remove gnuplot-qt Configurations and Data

To remove gnuplot-qt configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gnuplot-qt

Remove gnuplot-qt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnuplot-qt

Dependencies

gnuplot-qt have the following dependencies:

References

gnuplot-qt website

Summary

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