How To Install hol-light on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hol-light on Debian 9.
What is hol-light
hol-light is:
HOL Light is an interactive theorem prover for Higher-Order Logic with a very simple logical core running in an OCaml toplevel. HOL Light is famous for the verification of floating-point arithmetic as well as for the Flyspeck project, which aims at the formalization of Tom Hales’ proof of the Kepler conjecture.
There are three methods to install hol-light 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 hol-light Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hol-light using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hol-light
Install hol-light Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hol-light using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hol-light
Install hol-light 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 hol-light using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hol-light
How To Uninstall hol-light on Debian 9
To uninstall only the hol-light package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hol-light
Uninstall hol-light And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hol-light and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hol-light
Remove hol-light Configurations and Data
To remove hol-light configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hol-light
Remove hol-light configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hol-light configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hol-light
Dependencies
hol-light have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hol-light package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.