How To Install form on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install form on Debian 10.
What is form
form is:
This is a Symbolic Manipulation System. It reads symbolic expressions from files and executes symbolic/algebraic transformations upon them. The answers are returned in a textual mathematical representation. As its landmark feature, the size of the considered expressions in FORM is only limited by the available disk space and not by the available RAM.
There are three methods to install form 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 form Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install form using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install form
Install form Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install form using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install form
Install form 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 form using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install form
How To Uninstall form on Debian 10
To uninstall only the form package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove form
Uninstall form And Its Dependencies
To uninstall form and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove form
Remove form Configurations and Data
To remove form configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge form
Remove form configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove form configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge form
Dependencies
form have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install form package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.