How To Install gap-dev on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-dev on Debian 11.
What is gap-dev
gap-dev 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 GAP compiler and the headers files and objects files necessary to build GAP packages.
The GAP compiler (GAC) creates C code from GAP code and then calls the system’s C compiler to produce machine code from it. This can result in a speedup.
There are three methods to install gap-dev 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-dev 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-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gap-dev
Install gap-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gap-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gap-dev
Install gap-dev 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-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gap-dev
How To Uninstall gap-dev on Debian 11
To uninstall only the gap-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gap-dev
Uninstall gap-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gap-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gap-dev
Remove gap-dev Configurations and Data
To remove gap-dev configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gap-dev
Remove gap-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gap-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gap-dev
Dependencies
gap-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-dev package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.