How To Install maxima-test on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install maxima-test on Debian 9.
What is maxima-test
maxima-test is:
Maxima is a fully symbolic computation program. It is full featured doing symbolic manipulation of polynomials, matrices, rational functions, integration, Todd-coxeter methods for finite group analysis, graphing, multiple precision floating point computation. It has a symbolic source level debugger for maxima code. Maxima is based on the original Macsyma developed at MIT in the 1970s. It is quite reliable, and has good garbage collection, and no memory leaks. It comes with hundreds of self tests.
This package contains a build integrity test suite.
There are three methods to install maxima-test 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 maxima-test Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install maxima-test using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install maxima-test
Install maxima-test Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install maxima-test using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install maxima-test
Install maxima-test 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 maxima-test using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install maxima-test
How To Uninstall maxima-test on Debian 9
To uninstall only the maxima-test package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove maxima-test
Uninstall maxima-test And Its Dependencies
To uninstall maxima-test and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove maxima-test
Remove maxima-test Configurations and Data
To remove maxima-test configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge maxima-test
Remove maxima-test configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove maxima-test configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge maxima-test
Dependencies
maxima-test have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install maxima-test package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
