How To Install gap-float on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-float
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gap-float
gap-float 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 GAP package brings to GAP floating-point numbers with arbitrary precision; it is based on MPFR, MPFI, MPC, CXSC, and FPLLL.
There are three methods to install gap-float
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-float 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-float
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gap-float
Install gap-float Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gap-float
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gap-float
Install gap-float 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-float
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gap-float
How To Uninstall gap-float on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gap-float
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gap-float
Uninstall gap-float And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gap-float
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gap-float
Remove gap-float Configurations and Data
To remove gap-float
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gap-float
Remove gap-float configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gap-float
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gap-float
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-float
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.