How To Install gap-factint on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-factint
on Debian 10.
What is gap-factint
gap-factint is:
GAP is a system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on computational group theory, but which has already proved useful also in other areas.
This package brings to GAP routines for factoring integers, in particular:
- Pollard’s p-1
- Williams’ p+1
- Elliptic Curves Method (ECM)
- Continued Fraction Algorithm (CFRAC)
- Multiple Polynomial Quadratic Sieve (MPQS)
It also provides access to Richard P. Brent’s tables of factors of integers of the form b^k +/- 1.
There are three methods to install gap-factint
on Debian 10. 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-factint 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-factint
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gap-factint
Install gap-factint Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gap-factint
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gap-factint
Install gap-factint 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-factint
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gap-factint
How To Uninstall gap-factint on Debian 10
To uninstall only the gap-factint
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gap-factint
Uninstall gap-factint And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gap-factint
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gap-factint
Remove gap-factint Configurations and Data
To remove gap-factint
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gap-factint
Remove gap-factint configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gap-factint
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gap-factint
Dependencies
gap-factint have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-factint
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.