How To Install python-optlang on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-optlang on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-optlang is sympy based mathematical programming language (Python 2)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-optlang on Debian 10.

What is python-optlang

python-optlang is:

Optlang is a Python package for solving mathematical optimization problems, i.e. maximizing or minimizing an objective function over a set of variables subject to a number of constraints. Optlang provides a common interface to a series of optimization tools, so different solver backends can be changed in a transparent way. Optlang’s object-oriented API takes advantage of the symbolic math library sympy to allow objective functions and constraints to be easily formulated from symbolic expressions of variables.

This package installs the library for Python 2.

There are three methods to install python-optlang 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 python-optlang Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-optlang

Install python-optlang Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-optlang

Install python-optlang 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 python-optlang using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-optlang

How To Uninstall python-optlang on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-optlang package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-optlang

Uninstall python-optlang And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-optlang

Remove python-optlang Configurations and Data

To remove python-optlang configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-optlang

Remove python-optlang configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-optlang

Dependencies

python-optlang have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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