How To Install picosat on CentOS 8

picosat is A SAT solver

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install picosat on CentOS 8.

What is picosat

PicoSAT solves the SAT problem, which is the classical NP complete problem of searching for a satisfying assignment of a propositional formula in conjunctive normal form (CNF). PicoSAT can generate proofs and cores in memory by compressing the proof trace. It supports the proof format of TraceCheck.

We can use yum or dnf to install picosat on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install picosat.

Install picosat on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install picosat using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install picosat

Install picosat on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install picosat using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install picosat

How To Uninstall picosat on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the picosat package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove picosat

picosat Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/picogcnf
/usr/bin/picomcs
/usr/bin/picomus
/usr/bin/picosat
/usr/bin/picosat.trace
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/bddc398718d392564dca19258cac6704e7f43d
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d/66161b5bd121780a1e58713ea2ed26f0c4bafa
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/dddcbe72ee004542fbc78e7511191ae7fee11d
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/8d589e36c68c2e282f96b707189eb34bb7f2cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d/4abda99ed2328d435ce5fcac62c1674f75bab2
/usr/share/man/man1/picomus.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/picosat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/picosat.trace.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install picosat on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.