How To Install gap-libs on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-libs on Debian 11.
What is gap-libs
gap-libs 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 the essential GAP libraries (lib and grp).
There are three methods to install gap-libs on Debian 11. 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-libs 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-libs using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gap-libs
Install gap-libs Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gap-libs using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gap-libs
Install gap-libs 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-libs using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gap-libs
How To Uninstall gap-libs on Debian 11
To uninstall only the gap-libs package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gap-libs
Uninstall gap-libs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gap-libs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gap-libs
Remove gap-libs Configurations and Data
To remove gap-libs configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gap-libs
Remove gap-libs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gap-libs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gap-libs
Dependencies
gap-libs have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-libs package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.