How To Install clips on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clips on Debian 10.
What is clips
clips 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.
There are three methods to install clips 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install clips
Install clips Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install clips using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install clips
Install clips 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clips
How To Uninstall clips on Debian 10
To uninstall only the clips package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove clips
Uninstall clips And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clips and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove clips
Remove clips Configurations and Data
To remove clips configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge clips
Remove clips configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clips configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clips
Dependencies
clips have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clips package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.