How To Install jacal on Debian 10

Learn how to install jacal on Debian 10 with this tutorial. jacal is Interactive symbolic math system

Introduction

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

What is jacal

jacal is:

JACAL is an interactive symbolic math system which can manipulate and simplify equations, scalars, vectors, and matrices of single and multiple valued algebraic expressions containing numbers, variables, radicals, and algebraic differential, and holonomic functions.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install jacal

Install jacal Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install jacal

Install jacal 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 jacal using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install jacal

How To Uninstall jacal on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove jacal

Uninstall jacal And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove jacal

Remove jacal Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge jacal

Remove jacal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge jacal

Dependencies

jacal have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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