How to Install and Uninstall asymptote Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 03,2024

1. Install "asymptote" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install asymptote on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "asymptote" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall asymptote on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                asymptote
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the asymptote package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: asymptote
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.70+ds-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/tex
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian TeX Task Force
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 5212
Depends: tex-common (>= 6.13), python3:any, freeglut3 (>= 2.8.1), libc6 (>= 2.33), libfftw3-double3 (>= 3.3.5), libgc1 (>= 1:7.2d), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libgl1, libglew2.1 (>= 1.12.0), libglx0, libgsl25 (>= 2.6), libreadline8 (>= 6.0), libsigsegv2 (>= 2.9), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libtinfo6 (>= 6), libtirpc3 (>= 1.0.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0), ghostscript, imagemagick, install-info, texlive-binaries, texlive-latex-base, texlive-pstricks, texlive-plain-generic, xdg-utils
Recommends: asymptote-doc
Suggests: asymptote-x11
Filename: pool/universe/a/asymptote/asymptote_2.70+ds-2_amd64.deb
Size: 1260188
MD5sum: 396217b088a1d1ef8b1269787aca63ac
SHA1: e13f29c805f72ca8b103b200d05f2fc9d6232a4e
SHA256: 2bf2b9aebaa804831f65d854b024f5db134cc43ac7a128a6297270ef5e158190
SHA512: 96cafbe3bfe31d76f7f8e5c9966e85aee32d3110bf7ef6db2d6dd2822c87bb3ecdc600ec8bcebb212d04662ad42560dd74838a3be44c1133abcf7403db151c06
Homepage: http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/
Description-en: script-based vector graphics language inspired by MetaPost
Asymptote is a powerful script-based vector graphics language for technical
drawings, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax.
Asymptote provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that
LaTeX does for scientific text.
Description-md5: c1b6aa3ffb76bbaec115cd7c61f16b76