How To Install primecount-bin on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install primecount-bin
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is primecount-bin
primecount-bin is:
primecount is a free software program and C/C++ library that counts the primes below an integer x <= 10^31 using highly optimized implementations of the combinatorial prime counting algorithms.
This package provides the command line utility primecount.
There are three methods to install primecount-bin
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install primecount-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install primecount-bin
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install primecount-bin
Install primecount-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install primecount-bin
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install primecount-bin
Install primecount-bin 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 primecount-bin
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install primecount-bin
How To Uninstall primecount-bin on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the primecount-bin
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove primecount-bin
Uninstall primecount-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall primecount-bin
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove primecount-bin
Remove primecount-bin Configurations and Data
To remove primecount-bin
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge primecount-bin
Remove primecount-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove primecount-bin
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge primecount-bin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install primecount-bin
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.