How To Install apcalc on Debian 10

Learn how to install apcalc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. apcalc is Arbitrary precision calculator (original name

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install apcalc on Debian 10.

What is apcalc

apcalc is:

Calc is an arbitrary precision arithmetic system that uses a C-like language. Calc is useful as a calculator, an algorithm prototyper and as a mathematical research tool. More importantly, calc provides one with a machine independent means of computation. Calc comes with a rich set of builtin mathematical and programmatic functions.

Calc is built on top of the library libcalc that represents numeric values as fractions reduced to their lowest terms. This library can also be used to add arbitrary precision capabilities to your own programs and is available in the Debian package `apcalc-dev'.

The original name of this package is calc', but it had to be changed to apcalc’ for Debian, because there’s already another package called calc' in Debian. Nevertheless, the binary and manpage installed by this package are still named calc'.

There are three methods to install apcalc 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 apcalc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install apcalc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install apcalc

Install apcalc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install apcalc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install apcalc

Install apcalc 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 apcalc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install apcalc

How To Uninstall apcalc on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove apcalc

Uninstall apcalc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall apcalc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove apcalc

Remove apcalc Configurations and Data

To remove apcalc configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge apcalc

Remove apcalc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove apcalc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apcalc

Dependencies

apcalc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install apcalc package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.