How To Install gap-gapdoc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-gapdoc on Kali Linux. gap-gapdoc is GAPDoc - A Meta Package for GAP Documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-gapdoc on Kali Linux.

What is gap-gapdoc

gap-gapdoc 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 GAPDoc, “A Meta Package for GAP Documentation”, by Frank L?beck and Max Neunh?ffer, which is used to manage GAP documentation.

There are three methods to install gap-gapdoc on Kali Linux. 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-gapdoc 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-gapdoc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gap-gapdoc

Install gap-gapdoc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gap-gapdoc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gap-gapdoc

Install gap-gapdoc Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install gap-gapdoc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gap-gapdoc

How To Uninstall gap-gapdoc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the gap-gapdoc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gap-gapdoc

Uninstall gap-gapdoc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gap-gapdoc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gap-gapdoc

Remove gap-gapdoc Configurations and Data

To remove gap-gapdoc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gap-gapdoc

Remove gap-gapdoc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gap-gapdoc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gap-gapdoc

Dependencies

gap-gapdoc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-gapdoc package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.