How To Install gap-dev on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-dev
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gap-dev
gap-dev is:
GAP is a system for computational discrete algebra, with particular emphasis on Computational Group Theory. GAP provides a programming language, a library of thousands of functions implementing algebraic algorithms written in the GAP language as well as large data libraries of algebraic objects. GAP is used in research and teaching for studying groups and their representations, rings, vector spaces, algebras, combinatorial structures, and more.
This package contains the GAP compiler and the headers files and objects files necessary to build GAP packages.
The GAP compiler (GAC) creates C code from GAP code and then calls the system’s C compiler to produce machine code from it. This can result in a speedup.
There are three methods to install gap-dev
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gap-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gap-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gap-dev
Install gap-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gap-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gap-dev
Install gap-dev 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 gap-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gap-dev
How To Uninstall gap-dev on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gap-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gap-dev
Uninstall gap-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gap-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gap-dev
Remove gap-dev Configurations and Data
To remove gap-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gap-dev
Remove gap-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gap-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gap-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-dev
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.