How To Install coinor-csdp-dbg on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install coinor-csdp-dbg on Debian 9. coinor-csdp-dbg is A software package for semidefinite programming

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install coinor-csdp-dbg on Debian 9.

What is coinor-csdp-dbg

coinor-csdp-dbg is:

CSDP is a library of routines that implements a predictor corrector variant of the semidefinite programming algorithm of Helmberg, Rendl, Vanderbei, and Wolkowicz. The code runs in parallel on shared memory multi-processor systems, and it makes effective use of sparsity in the constraint matrices.

CSDP is part of the larger COIN-OR initiative (Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research).

This package contains the debug symbols.

There are three methods to install coinor-csdp-dbg on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install coinor-csdp-dbg Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install coinor-csdp-dbg

Install coinor-csdp-dbg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install coinor-csdp-dbg using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install coinor-csdp-dbg

Install coinor-csdp-dbg 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install coinor-csdp-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install coinor-csdp-dbg

How To Uninstall coinor-csdp-dbg on Debian 9

To uninstall only the coinor-csdp-dbg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove coinor-csdp-dbg

Uninstall coinor-csdp-dbg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall coinor-csdp-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove coinor-csdp-dbg

Remove coinor-csdp-dbg Configurations and Data

To remove coinor-csdp-dbg configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge coinor-csdp-dbg

Remove coinor-csdp-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove coinor-csdp-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge coinor-csdp-dbg

Dependencies

coinor-csdp-dbg have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install coinor-csdp-dbg package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.