How To Install minisat on Debian 10

Learn how to install minisat on Debian 10 with this tutorial. minisat is Fast and lightweight SAT solver

Introduction

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

What is minisat

minisat is:

Despite the NP completeness of the satisfiability problem of Boolean formulas (SAT), SAT solvers are often able to decide this problem in a reasonable time frame. As all other NP complete problems are reducible to SAT, the solvers have become a general purpose tool for this class of problems.

MiniSat is a minimalistic, open-source SAT solver, developed to help researchers and developers alike to get started on SAT. Winning all the industrial categories of the SAT 2005 competition, MiniSat is a good starting point both for future research in SAT, and for applications using SAT.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install minisat

Install minisat Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install minisat

Install minisat 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 minisat using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install minisat

How To Uninstall minisat on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove minisat

Uninstall minisat And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove minisat

Remove minisat Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge minisat

Remove minisat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge minisat

Dependencies

minisat have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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