How To Install liblbfgsb0 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblbfgsb0 on Debian 9.
What is liblbfgsb0
liblbfgsb0 is:
Fortran library implementing limited-memory quasi-Newton bound-constrained optimization as described in [1,2,3].
This package contains the library itself.
[1] R. H. Byrd, P. Lu and J. Nocedal. A Limited Memory Algorithm for Bound Constrained Optimization, (1995), SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing , 16, 5, pp. 1190-1208.
[2] C. Zhu, R. H. Byrd and J. Nocedal. L-BFGS-B: Algorithm 778: L-BFGS-B, FORTRAN routines for large scale bound constrained optimization (1997), ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol 23, Num. 4, pp. 550 - 560.
[3] J.L. Morales and J. Nocedal. L-BFGS-B: Remark on Algorithm 778: L-BFGS-B, FORTRAN routines for large scale bound constrained optimization (2011), to appear in ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software.
There are three methods to install liblbfgsb0 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 liblbfgsb0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblbfgsb0 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblbfgsb0
Install liblbfgsb0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblbfgsb0 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblbfgsb0
Install liblbfgsb0 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 liblbfgsb0 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblbfgsb0
How To Uninstall liblbfgsb0 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the liblbfgsb0 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblbfgsb0
Uninstall liblbfgsb0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblbfgsb0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblbfgsb0
Remove liblbfgsb0 Configurations and Data
To remove liblbfgsb0 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblbfgsb0
Remove liblbfgsb0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblbfgsb0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblbfgsb0
Dependencies
liblbfgsb0 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblbfgsb0 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
