How To Install givaro-user-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install givaro-user-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. givaro-user-doc is User Documentation for Givaro (obsolete)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install givaro-user-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is givaro-user-doc

givaro-user-doc is:

Givaro is a C++ library for arithmetic and algebraic computations. Its main features are implementations of the basic arithmetic of many mathematical entities: Primes fields, Extensions Fields, Finite Fields, Finite Rings, Polynomials, Algebraic numbers, and Arbitrary precision integers and rationals (C++ wrappers over gmp).

Givaro also provides data-structures and templated classes for the manipulation of basic algebraic objects, such as vectors, matrices (dense, sparse, structured), univariate polynomials (and therefore recursive multivariate).

It contains different program modules and is fully compatible with the LinBox linear algebra library and the Athapascan environment, which permits parallel programming.

This is a transitional dummy package. The ‘givaro-user-doc’ package has been renamed to ’libgivaro-doc’, which has been installed automatically. This ‘givaro-user-doc’ package can be safely removed from the system if no other package depends on it.

There are three methods to install givaro-user-doc 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 givaro-user-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install givaro-user-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install givaro-user-doc

Install givaro-user-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install givaro-user-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install givaro-user-doc

Install givaro-user-doc 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 givaro-user-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install givaro-user-doc

How To Uninstall givaro-user-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the givaro-user-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove givaro-user-doc

Uninstall givaro-user-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall givaro-user-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove givaro-user-doc

Remove givaro-user-doc Configurations and Data

To remove givaro-user-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge givaro-user-doc

Remove givaro-user-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove givaro-user-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge givaro-user-doc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install givaro-user-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.