How To Install gap on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install gap on Kali Linux. gap is computer algebra system for Groups, Algorithms and Programming

Introduction

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

What is gap

gap 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 a dummy package that depends on the standard GAP components.

There are three methods to install gap 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gap

Install gap Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gap

Install gap 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gap

How To Uninstall gap on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove gap

Uninstall gap And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gap

Remove gap Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gap

Remove gap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gap

Dependencies

gap have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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