How To Install minisat2 on Fedora 34

minisat2 is Minimalistic SAT solver

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install minisat2 on Fedora 34.

What is minisat2

MiniSat is a minimalistic, open-source Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) solver, developed to help researchers and developers alike to get started on SAT. Together with SatELite, MiniSat was recently awarded in the three industrial categories and one of the “crafted” categories of the SAT 2005 competition. A SAT solver can determine if it is possible to find assignments to boolean variables that would make a given expression true, if the expression is written with only AND, OR, NOT, parentheses, and boolean variables. If the expression is satisfiable, MiniSAT can also produce a set of assignments that make the expression true. Although the problem is NP-complete, SAT solvers (like this one) are often able to decide this problem in a reasonable time frame.

We can use yum or dnf to install minisat2 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install minisat2.

Install minisat2 on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install minisat2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install minisat2

Install minisat2 on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install minisat2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install minisat2

How To Uninstall minisat2 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the minisat2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove minisat2

minisat2 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/minisat
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/90283a554102afcab3a92ba10afeb92da690ba
/usr/share/doc/minisat2
/usr/share/doc/minisat2/ReleaseNotes-2.2.0.txt
/usr/share/doc/minisat2/minisat-user-guide.html
/usr/share/doc/minisat2/minisat2-test.in
/usr/share/doc/minisat2/minisat2-test.out
/usr/share/man/man1/minisat.1.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install minisat2 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.