How To Install swi-prolog-core-packages on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swi-prolog-core-packages
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is swi-prolog-core-packages
swi-prolog-core-packages is:
SWI-Prolog is a fast and powerful ISO/Edinburgh-style Prolog compiler with a rich set of built-in predicates. It offers a fast, robust and small environment which enables substantial applications to be developed with it.
SWI-Prolog additionally offers:
- A powerful module system
- Garbage collection
- Unicode character set handling
- Unbounted integer and rational number arithmetic
- Multithreading support
- A powerful C/C++ interface
- GNU Readline interface
This package contains a working SWI-Prolog core packages.
There are three methods to install swi-prolog-core-packages
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 swi-prolog-core-packages Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install swi-prolog-core-packages
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install swi-prolog-core-packages
Install swi-prolog-core-packages Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install swi-prolog-core-packages
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install swi-prolog-core-packages
Install swi-prolog-core-packages 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 swi-prolog-core-packages
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install swi-prolog-core-packages
How To Uninstall swi-prolog-core-packages on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the swi-prolog-core-packages
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove swi-prolog-core-packages
Uninstall swi-prolog-core-packages And Its Dependencies
To uninstall swi-prolog-core-packages
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove swi-prolog-core-packages
Remove swi-prolog-core-packages Configurations and Data
To remove swi-prolog-core-packages
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge swi-prolog-core-packages
Remove swi-prolog-core-packages configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove swi-prolog-core-packages
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swi-prolog-core-packages
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swi-prolog-core-packages
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.