How To Install clips-common on Debian 10

Learn how to install clips-common on Debian 10 with this tutorial. clips-common is CLIPS common files and examples

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install clips-common on Debian 10.

What is clips-common

clips-common is:

CLIPS 6.0 is an OPS-like forward chaining production system written in ANSI C by NASA. The CLIPS inference engine includes truth maintenance, dynamic rule addition, and customizable conflict resolution strategies.

CLIPS, including the runtime version, is easily embeddable in other applications. CLIPS includes an object-oriented language called COOL (CLIPS Object-Oriented Language) which is directly integrated with the inference engine.

This package installs the common files shared by both the text and graphics interface, currently it includes both the help file and examples of CLIPS programs that can be used to learn the language and test the interfaces.

There are three methods to install clips-common 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 clips-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install clips-common

Install clips-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install clips-common

Install clips-common 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 clips-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install clips-common

How To Uninstall clips-common on Debian 10

To uninstall only the clips-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove clips-common

Uninstall clips-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove clips-common

Remove clips-common Configurations and Data

To remove clips-common configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge clips-common

Remove clips-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clips-common

Dependencies

clips-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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