How To Install swi-prolog-core on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swi-prolog-core
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is swi-prolog-core
swi-prolog-core 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 system.
There are three methods to install swi-prolog-core
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 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install swi-prolog-core
Install swi-prolog-core Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install swi-prolog-core
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install swi-prolog-core
Install swi-prolog-core 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install swi-prolog-core
How To Uninstall swi-prolog-core on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the swi-prolog-core
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove swi-prolog-core
Uninstall swi-prolog-core And Its Dependencies
To uninstall swi-prolog-core
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
Remove swi-prolog-core Configurations and Data
To remove swi-prolog-core
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge swi-prolog-core
Remove swi-prolog-core configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove swi-prolog-core
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swi-prolog-core
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swi-prolog-core
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.