How To Install alliance on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install alliance on Debian 10.
What is alliance
alliance is:
Alliance is a complete set of free CAD tools and portable libraries for VLSI design. It includes a VHDL compiler and simulator, logic synthesis tools, and automatic place and route tools.
A complete set of portable CMOS libraries is provided, including a RAM generator, a ROM generator and a data-path compiler.
Alliance is the result of more than ten years effort spent at ASIM department of LIP6 laboratory of the Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris VI, France).
Alliance has been used for research projects such as the 875 000 transistors StaCS superscalar microprocessor and 400 000 transistors IEEE Gigabit HSL Router.
Alliance provides CAD tools covering most of all the digital design flow:
- VHDL Compilation and Simulation
- Model checking and formal proof
- RTL and Logic synthesis
- Data-Path compilation
- Macro-cells generation
- Place and route
- Layout edition
- Netlist extraction and verification
- Design rules checking
There are three methods to install alliance 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 alliance Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install alliance using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install alliance
Install alliance Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install alliance using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install alliance
Install alliance 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 alliance using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install alliance
How To Uninstall alliance on Debian 10
To uninstall only the alliance package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove alliance
Uninstall alliance And Its Dependencies
To uninstall alliance and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove alliance
Remove alliance Configurations and Data
To remove alliance configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge alliance
Remove alliance configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove alliance configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alliance
Dependencies
alliance have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install alliance package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
