How To Install gap-radiroot on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-radiroot on Kali Linux. gap-radiroot is GAP RadiRoot - Roots of a Polynomial as Radicals

Introduction

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

What is gap-radiroot

gap-radiroot 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.

RadiRoot is a package for computing the roots of a polynomial as radicals by Andreas Distler.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gap-radiroot

Install gap-radiroot Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gap-radiroot

Install gap-radiroot 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-radiroot using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gap-radiroot

How To Uninstall gap-radiroot on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove gap-radiroot

Uninstall gap-radiroot And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gap-radiroot

Remove gap-radiroot Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gap-radiroot

Remove gap-radiroot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gap-radiroot

Dependencies

gap-radiroot have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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