How to Install and Uninstall gnuplot5 Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: April 29,2024

1. Install "gnuplot5" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install gnuplot5 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "gnuplot5" package

Learn how to uninstall gnuplot5 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the gnuplot5 package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: gnuplot5
Priority: optional
Section: universe/math
Installed-Size: 17
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Science Team
Architecture: all
Version: 5.0.3+dfsg2-1
Provides: gnuplot
Depends: gnuplot5-qt | gnuplot5-x11 | gnuplot5-nox
Suggests: gnuplot5-doc
Filename: pool/universe/g/gnuplot5/gnuplot5_5.0.3+dfsg2-1_all.deb
Size: 3710
MD5sum: e50eaa62562294a8d450580e7ee55575
SHA1: 406731578e9819210d305c599d207b0ca4232741
SHA256: de893133e767113c7ac1427ea708cefb889a0f77448485788dc05ae6c311275e
Description-en: Command-line driven interactive plotting program, version 5
Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven interactive data and function
plotting utility that supports lots of output formats, including drivers
for many printers, (La)TeX, (x)fig, Postscript, and so on. The X11-output
is packaged in gnuplot-x11.
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Data files and self-defined functions can be manipulated by the internal
C-like language. Can perform smoothing, spline-fitting, or nonlinear fits,
and can work with complex numbers.
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This package is for transition and to install a full-featured gnuplot
supporting the X11-output.
Description-md5: e38de9009e91afaf627e14d634365018
Homepage: http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu