How To Install gap-hapcryst on Debian 12

Learn how to install gap-hapcryst on Debian 12 with this tutorial. gap-hapcryst is GAP HAPcryst - A HAP extension for crystallographic groups

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-hapcryst on Debian 12.

What is gap-hapcryst

gap-hapcryst 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 is an extension to the HAP package by Graham Ellis. It implements geometric methods for the calculation of resolutions of Bieberbach groups.

There are three methods to install gap-hapcryst on Debian 12. 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-hapcryst 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-hapcryst using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gap-hapcryst

Install gap-hapcryst Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gap-hapcryst

Install gap-hapcryst 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-hapcryst using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gap-hapcryst

How To Uninstall gap-hapcryst on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove gap-hapcryst

Uninstall gap-hapcryst And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gap-hapcryst and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gap-hapcryst

Remove gap-hapcryst Configurations and Data

To remove gap-hapcryst configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gap-hapcryst

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

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

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

Dependencies

gap-hapcryst have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-hapcryst package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.