How To Install gap-utils on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-utils
on Debian 12.
What is gap-utils
gap-utils 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.
The Utils package provides a collection of utility functions gleaned from many packages.
There are three methods to install gap-utils
on Debian 12. 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-utils 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-utils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gap-utils
Install gap-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gap-utils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gap-utils
Install gap-utils 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 gap-utils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gap-utils
How To Uninstall gap-utils on Debian 12
To uninstall only the gap-utils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gap-utils
Uninstall gap-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gap-utils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gap-utils
Remove gap-utils Configurations and Data
To remove gap-utils
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gap-utils
Remove gap-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gap-utils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gap-utils
Dependencies
gap-utils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-utils
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.