How To Install gap-online-help on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-online-help
on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-online-help
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.