How To Install gnuplot 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 on Ubuntu.
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 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 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 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnuplot
How To Uninstall gnuplot on Ubuntu
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 Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnuplot
Remove gnuplot Configurations and Data
To remove gnuplot configuration and data from Ubuntu 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:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuplot package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.