How To Install gap-online-help on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-online-help on Debian 11. gap-online-help is GAP computer algebra system, online help

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-online-help on Debian 11.

What is gap-online-help

gap-online-help 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 documentation in TeX format needed for the online help system.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gap-online-help

Install gap-online-help Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gap-online-help

Install gap-online-help 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-online-help using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gap-online-help

How To Uninstall gap-online-help on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove gap-online-help

Uninstall gap-online-help And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gap-online-help and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gap-online-help

Remove gap-online-help Configurations and Data

To remove gap-online-help configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gap-online-help

Remove gap-online-help configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gap-online-help

Dependencies

gap-online-help have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-online-help package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.