How To Install singular on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install singular on Debian 10.
What is singular
singular is:
SINGULAR is a Computer Algebra System (CAS) for polynomial computations with emphasis on the special needs of commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and singularity theory.
This dummy package provides the standard installation.
There are three methods to install singular 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 singular Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install singular using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install singular
Install singular Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install singular using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install singular
Install singular 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 singular using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install singular
How To Uninstall singular on Debian 10
To uninstall only the singular package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove singular
Uninstall singular And Its Dependencies
To uninstall singular and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove singular
Remove singular Configurations and Data
To remove singular configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge singular
Remove singular configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove singular configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge singular
Dependencies
singular have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install singular package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
