How To Install gap-character-tables on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-character-tables on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gap-character-tables
gap-character-tables is:
GAP is a system for computational discrete algebra, with particular emphasis on Computational Group Theory. GAP provides a programming language, a library of thousands of functions implementing algebraic algorithms written in the GAP language as well as large data libraries of algebraic objects. GAP is used in research and teaching for studying groups and their representations, rings, vector spaces, algebras, combinatorial structures, and more.
This package contains the Character Table Library by Thomas Breuer.
There are three methods to install gap-character-tables 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 gap-character-tables Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gap-character-tables using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gap-character-tables
Install gap-character-tables Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gap-character-tables using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gap-character-tables
Install gap-character-tables 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 gap-character-tables using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gap-character-tables
How To Uninstall gap-character-tables on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gap-character-tables package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gap-character-tables
Uninstall gap-character-tables And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gap-character-tables and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gap-character-tables
Remove gap-character-tables Configurations and Data
To remove gap-character-tables configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gap-character-tables
Remove gap-character-tables configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gap-character-tables configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gap-character-tables
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-character-tables package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
