How To Install plantuml 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 plantuml on Ubuntu.

What is `plantuml`

plantuml is:

PlantUML is a program allowing to draw UML diagrams, using a simple human readable text description.

PlantUML supports the following UML diagrams:

sequence diagram
use case diagram
class diagram
activity diagram
component diagram
state diagram
object diagram
deployment diagram
timing diagram

The following non-UML diagrams are also supported:

wireframe graphical interface (Salt)
Archimate diagram
Specification and Description Language (SDL)
Ditaa diagram
Gantt diagram
mathematics with AsciiMath or JLaTeXMath notation

Output images can be generated in PNG, in SVG or LaTeX format. PlantUML also supports generation of ASCII art diagrams (only for sequence diagrams).

There are three methods to install plantuml 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 plantuml Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install plantuml

Install plantuml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install plantuml

Install plantuml 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 plantuml using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install plantuml

How To Uninstall plantuml on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove plantuml

Uninstall plantuml And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plantuml

Remove plantuml Configurations and Data

To remove plantuml configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge plantuml

Remove plantuml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plantuml

Dependencies

plantuml have the following dependencies:

References

plantuml website

Summary

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