How To Install clips-common on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clips-common on Debian 9.
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 9. 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 9
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 9, 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 9 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 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.