How To Install gap-crystcat on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-crystcat
on Debian 11.
What is gap-crystcat
gap-crystcat 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 provides a catalog of crystallographic groups of dimensions 2, 3, and 4 which covers most of the data contained in the book Crystallographic groups of four-dimensional space by H. Brown, R. B?low, J. Neub?ser, H. Wondratschek, and H. Zassenhaus (John Wiley, New York, 1978). Methods for the computation with these groups are provided by the package Cryst, which must be installed as well. This package was written by Volkmar Felsch and Franz G?hler.
There are three methods to install gap-crystcat
on Debian 11. 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-crystcat 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-crystcat
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gap-crystcat
Install gap-crystcat Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gap-crystcat
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gap-crystcat
Install gap-crystcat 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 gap-crystcat
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gap-crystcat
How To Uninstall gap-crystcat on Debian 11
To uninstall only the gap-crystcat
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gap-crystcat
Uninstall gap-crystcat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gap-crystcat
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gap-crystcat
Remove gap-crystcat Configurations and Data
To remove gap-crystcat
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gap-crystcat
Remove gap-crystcat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gap-crystcat
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gap-crystcat
Dependencies
gap-crystcat have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-crystcat
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.