How To Install flatzinc on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flatzinc on Kali Linux.

What is flatzinc

flatzinc is:

FlatZinc is a low-level modelling language for constraint problems. It is designed to be easily interfaceable to constraint solvers (like Gecode). For more information on FlatZinc, please refer to the MiniZinc pages of the G12 project https://www.minizinc.org/.

The FlatZinc interpreter that ships with Gecode supports the FlatZinc language and MiniZinc global constraint definitions of MiniZinc version 1.6.0.

There are three methods to install flatzinc on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install flatzinc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install flatzinc

Install flatzinc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install flatzinc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install flatzinc

Install flatzinc Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install flatzinc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install flatzinc

How To Uninstall flatzinc on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove flatzinc

Uninstall flatzinc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall flatzinc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove flatzinc

Remove flatzinc Configurations and Data

To remove flatzinc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge flatzinc

Remove flatzinc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flatzinc

Dependencies

flatzinc have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libgecode49
• libgecodeflatzinc49
• libgecodegist49
• libstdc++6

References

• flatzinc website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install flatzinc package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.