How To Install tulip 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 tulip on Ubuntu.

What is `tulip`

tulip is:

Tulip is an information visualization framework dedicated to the analysis and visualization of relational data. It aims to provide the developer with a complete library, supporting the design of interactive information visualization applications for relational data that can be tailored to the problems he or she is addressing.

It includes the following features:

3D visualizations
3D modifications
Plug-in support for easy evolution
Building of clusters and navigation into them
Automatic drawing of graphs
Automatic clustering of graphs
Automatic selection of elements
Automatic metric coloration of graphs

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tulip

Install tulip Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tulip

Install tulip 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 tulip using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tulip

How To Uninstall tulip on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove tulip

Uninstall tulip And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tulip

Remove tulip Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tulip

Remove tulip configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tulip

Dependencies

tulip have the following dependencies:

References

tulip website

Summary

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