How To Install liblinbox-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblinbox-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is liblinbox-dev
liblinbox-dev is:
LinBox is a C++ template library for exact, high-performance linear algebra computation with dense, sparse, and structured matrices over the integers and over finite fields.
This package contains the LinBox development files.
There are three methods to install liblinbox-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install liblinbox-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 liblinbox-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblinbox-dev
Install liblinbox-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblinbox-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblinbox-dev
Install liblinbox-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 liblinbox-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblinbox-dev
How To Uninstall liblinbox-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the liblinbox-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblinbox-dev
Uninstall liblinbox-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblinbox-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblinbox-dev
Remove liblinbox-dev Configurations and Data
To remove liblinbox-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblinbox-dev
Remove liblinbox-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblinbox-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblinbox-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblinbox-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
