How To Install libreoffice-nlpsolver on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libreoffice-nlpsolver
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libreoffice-nlpsolver
libreoffice-nlpsolver is:
By default LibreOffice Calc ships with a solver engine for linear programming only. This allows the optimization of models to a certain degree. However, if the formulas or constraints become more complex, nonlinear programming is required. That missing gap is now filled by the Solver for Nonlinear Programming extension.
Currently it incorporates two Evolutionary Algorithms which are able to handle floating point and integer variables as well as nonlinear constraints.
Package: libreoffice-nlpsolver Architecture: all Version: 0.9+LibO6.4.2-0ubuntu3 Priority: extra Section: math Source: libreoffice (1:6.4.2-0ubuntu3) Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian LibreOffice Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2536 Depends: libreoffice-calc, libreoffice-core, libreoffice-java-common, default-jre (>= 2:1.8) | java8-runtime | jre Filename: pool/main/libr/libreoffice/libreoffice-nlpsolver_0.9+LibO6.4.2-0ubuntu3_all.deb Size: 676404 MD5sum: bde8875b55c522028eb3749058dce964 SHA1: 9f61676734b2c5f15a87e4b74de9d48a7d38c0f0 SHA256: f0a71adb78f7def54a6b7f164c3047f875c7eea3b034779ba7929c17b6b22410 Homepage: http://www.libreoffice.org Description-en: “Solver for Nonlinear Programming” extension for LibreOffice By default LibreOffice Calc ships with a solver engine for linear programming only. This allows the optimization of models to a certain degree. However, if the formulas or constraints become more complex, nonlinear programming is required. That missing gap is now filled by the Solver for Nonlinear Programming extension.
Currently it incorporates two Evolutionary Algorithms which are able to handle floating point and integer variables as well as nonlinear constraints.
There are three methods to install libreoffice-nlpsolver
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 libreoffice-nlpsolver Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libreoffice-nlpsolver
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libreoffice-nlpsolver
Install libreoffice-nlpsolver Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libreoffice-nlpsolver
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libreoffice-nlpsolver
Install libreoffice-nlpsolver 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 libreoffice-nlpsolver
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libreoffice-nlpsolver
How To Uninstall libreoffice-nlpsolver on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libreoffice-nlpsolver
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-nlpsolver
Uninstall libreoffice-nlpsolver And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libreoffice-nlpsolver
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libreoffice-nlpsolver
Remove libreoffice-nlpsolver Configurations and Data
To remove libreoffice-nlpsolver
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libreoffice-nlpsolver
Remove libreoffice-nlpsolver configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libreoffice-nlpsolver
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libreoffice-nlpsolver
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libreoffice-nlpsolver
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.