How To Install nauty on Debian 10

Learn how to install nauty on Debian 10 with this tutorial. nauty is library for graph automorphisms – interface and tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nauty on Debian 10.

What is nauty

nauty is:

nauty (No AUTomorphisms, Yes?) is a set of procedures for computing automorphism groups of graphs and digraphs. This mathematical software suite is developed by Brendan McKay and Adolfo Piperno: http://pallini.di.uniroma1.it

nauty computes graph information in the form of a set of generators, the size of the group, and the orbits of the group; it can also produce a canonical label. The nauty suite is written in C and comes with a command-line interface, a collection of command-line tools, and an Application Programming Interface (API).

This package provides the nauty interface named dreadnaut, and a small collection of utilities called gtools.

There are three methods to install nauty on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install nauty Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install nauty

Install nauty Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install nauty using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install nauty

Install nauty 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 nauty using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nauty

How To Uninstall nauty on Debian 10

To uninstall only the nauty package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove nauty

Uninstall nauty And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nauty and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nauty

Remove nauty Configurations and Data

To remove nauty configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nauty

Remove nauty configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nauty

Dependencies

nauty have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nauty package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.