How To Install jacal on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install jacal
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is jacal
jacal is:
JACAL is an interactive symbolic math system which can manipulate and simplify equations, scalars, vectors, and matrices of single and multiple valued algebraic expressions containing numbers, variables, radicals, and algebraic differential, and holonomic functions.
There are three methods to install jacal
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 jacal Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install jacal
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install jacal
Install jacal Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install jacal
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install jacal
Install jacal 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 jacal
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install jacal
How To Uninstall jacal on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the jacal
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove jacal
Uninstall jacal And Its Dependencies
To uninstall jacal
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove jacal
Remove jacal Configurations and Data
To remove jacal
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge jacal
Remove jacal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove jacal
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge jacal
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install jacal
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.