How To Install form on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install form on Debian 9.

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 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 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 9

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 9, 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 9 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:

• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• form website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install form package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.