How To Install gf-complete-tools on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gf-complete-tools on Debian 9.
What is gf-complete-tools
gf-complete-tools is:
Galois Field arithmetic forms the backbone of erasure-coded storage systems, most famously the Reed-Solomon erasure code. A Galois Field is defined over w-bit words and is termed GF(2w). As such, the elements of a Galois Field are the integers 0, 1, . . ., 2^w ?? 1. Galois Field arithmetic defines addition and multiplication over these closed sets of integers in such a way that they work as you would hope they would work. Specifically, every number has a unique multiplicative inverse. Moreover, there is a value, typically the value 2, which has the property that you can enumerate all of the non-zero elements of the field by taking that value to successively higher powers.
This package contains miscellaneous tools for working with gf-complete.
There are three methods to install gf-complete-tools on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gf-complete-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gf-complete-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gf-complete-tools
Install gf-complete-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gf-complete-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gf-complete-tools
Install gf-complete-tools 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 gf-complete-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gf-complete-tools
How To Uninstall gf-complete-tools on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gf-complete-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gf-complete-tools
Uninstall gf-complete-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gf-complete-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gf-complete-tools
Remove gf-complete-tools Configurations and Data
To remove gf-complete-tools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gf-complete-tools
Remove gf-complete-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gf-complete-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gf-complete-tools
Dependencies
gf-complete-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gf-complete-tools package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.