How To Install libcadical-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libcadical-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libcadical-dev is Simplified Satisfiability Solver (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcadical-dev on Debian 12.

What is libcadical-dev

libcadical-dev is:

CaDiCaL is a CDCL solver that is easy to understand and change, while at the same time not being much slower than other state-of-the-art CDCL solvers.

This package contains development files for CaDiCaL. Install it if you want to develop applications that use CaDiCaL’s API.

There are three methods to install libcadical-dev 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 libcadical-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 libcadical-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libcadical-dev

Install libcadical-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libcadical-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libcadical-dev

Install libcadical-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libcadical-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libcadical-dev

How To Uninstall libcadical-dev on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libcadical-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libcadical-dev

Uninstall libcadical-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libcadical-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcadical-dev

Remove libcadical-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libcadical-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libcadical-dev

Remove libcadical-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libcadical-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcadical-dev

Dependencies

libcadical-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcadical-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.