How To Install gap-libs on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-libs
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 Ubuntu 20.04. 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-libs
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.