How To Install liblinboxsage-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblinboxsage-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. liblinboxsage-dev is SAGE interface of LinBox - development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblinboxsage-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is liblinboxsage-dev

liblinboxsage-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 development files for of interface of LinBox.

There are three methods to install liblinboxsage-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install liblinboxsage-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 liblinboxsage-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblinboxsage-dev

Install liblinboxsage-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install liblinboxsage-dev

Install liblinboxsage-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 liblinboxsage-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblinboxsage-dev

How To Uninstall liblinboxsage-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove liblinboxsage-dev

Uninstall liblinboxsage-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblinboxsage-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblinboxsage-dev

Remove liblinboxsage-dev Configurations and Data

To remove liblinboxsage-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblinboxsage-dev

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

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

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblinboxsage-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.