How To Install form-doc on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install form-doc on Debian 9.
What is form-doc
form-doc is:
This is the documentation for the 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-doc 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-doc 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-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install form-doc
Install form-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install form-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install form-doc
Install form-doc 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-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install form-doc
How To Uninstall form-doc on Debian 9
To uninstall only the form-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove form-doc
Uninstall form-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall form-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove form-doc
Remove form-doc Configurations and Data
To remove form-doc configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge form-doc
Remove form-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove form-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge form-doc
Dependencies
form-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install form-doc package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.