How To Install derivations on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install derivations on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is derivations
derivations is:
Understandably, program sources rarely derive the mathematical formulas they use. Not wishing to take the formulas on faith, a user might nevertheless reasonably wish to see such formulas somewhere derived.
Derivations of Applied Mathematics is a book which documents and derives many of the mathematical formulas and methods implemented in free software or used in science and engineering generally. It documents and derives the Taylor series (used to calculate trigonometrics), the Newton-Raphson method (used to calculate square roots), the Pythagorean theorem (used to calculate distances) and many others.
There are three methods to install derivations on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install derivations Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install derivations using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install derivations
Install derivations Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install derivations using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install derivations
Install derivations 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install derivations using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install derivations
How To Uninstall derivations on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the derivations package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove derivations
Uninstall derivations And Its Dependencies
To uninstall derivations and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove derivations
Remove derivations Configurations and Data
To remove derivations configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge derivations
Remove derivations configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove derivations configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge derivations
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install derivations package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
