How To Install xfig 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 xfig on Ubuntu.

What is `xfig`

xfig is:

XFig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects interactively in an X window. The resulting pictures can be saved. If the fig2dev program is installed, which is contained in the fig2dev package, the pictures can be printed on postscript printers or converted to a variety of other formats (e.g. to allow inclusion in LaTeX documents or web pages).

This package contains the xfig program itself.

You should think about installing the fig2dev package to export the graphics to several common formats. You should also think about installing xfig-doc, which contains the documentation and xfig-libs, which contains several clip art libraries.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install xfig

Install xfig Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install xfig

Install xfig 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 xfig using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install xfig

How To Uninstall xfig on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove xfig

Uninstall xfig And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove xfig

Remove xfig Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge xfig

Remove xfig configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xfig

Dependencies

xfig have the following dependencies:

References

xfig website

Summary

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