How To Install octave-mvn on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
2 minutes • 383 words
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-mvn on Ubuntu.
What is octave-mvn
octave-mvn is:
This package contains multivariate normal distribution clustering and utility functions for Octave, a scientific computation software. It implements different divergence techniques for similarity computation and also include a k-means clustering method for the multivariate Gaussians and a method to compute native self-organizing maps for multivatiate Gaussians and their divergences.
This Octave add-on package is part of the Octave-Forge project.
There are three methods to install octave-mvn 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 octave-mvn Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install octave-mvn using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install octave-mvn
Install octave-mvn Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install octave-mvn using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install octave-mvn
Install octave-mvn 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 octave-mvn using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install octave-mvn
How To Uninstall octave-mvn on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the octave-mvn package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove octave-mvn
Uninstall octave-mvn And Its Dependencies
To uninstall octave-mvn and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove octave-mvn
Remove octave-mvn Configurations and Data
To remove octave-mvn configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge octave-mvn
Remove octave-mvn configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove octave-mvn configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge octave-mvn
Dependencies
octave-mvn have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-mvn package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.