How To Install libceres3 on Debian 12

Learn how to install libceres3 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libceres3 is nonlinear least squares minimizer (shared library)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libceres3 on Debian 12.

What is libceres3

libceres3 is:

Ceres Solver is an open source C++ library for modeling and solving large, complicated optimization problems. It is a feature rich, mature and performant library which has been used in production at Google since 2010.

Ceres Solver can solve two kinds of problems.

  • Non-linear Least Squares problems with bounds constraints.
  • General unconstrained optimization problems.

This package contains the shared library.

There are three methods to install libceres3 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libceres3 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libceres3 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libceres3

Install libceres3 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libceres3 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libceres3

Install libceres3 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 libceres3 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libceres3

How To Uninstall libceres3 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libceres3 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libceres3

Uninstall libceres3 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libceres3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libceres3

Remove libceres3 Configurations and Data

To remove libceres3 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libceres3

Remove libceres3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libceres3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libceres3

Dependencies

libceres3 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libceres3 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.