How To Install libcolt-free-java-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcolt-free-java-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. libcolt-free-java-doc is scalable scientific and technical computing in Java (doc)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcolt-free-java-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libcolt-free-java-doc

libcolt-free-java-doc is:

This distribution provides an infrastructure for scalable scientific and technical computing in Java. It is particularly useful in the domain of High Energy Physics at CERN: It contains, among others, efficient and usable data structures and algorithms for Off-line and On-line Data Analysis, Linear Algebra, Multi-dimensional arrays, Statistics, Histogramming, Monte Carlo Simulation, Parallel & Concurrent Programming. It summons some of the best concepts, designs and implementations thought up over time by the community, ports or improves them and introduces new approaches where need arises. In overlapping areas, it is competitive or superior to toolkits such as STL, Root, HTL, CLHEP, TNT, GSL, C-RAND / WIN-RAND, (all C/C++) as well as IBM Array, JDK 1.2 Collections framework (all Java), in terms of performance, functionality and (re)usability.

This package provides the documentation for the library

Note: libcolt-free-java is a copy of libcolt-java stripped from some classes with a non-free license (LGPL+military exception).

There are three methods to install libcolt-free-java-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 libcolt-free-java-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 libcolt-free-java-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libcolt-free-java-doc

Install libcolt-free-java-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libcolt-free-java-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libcolt-free-java-doc

Install libcolt-free-java-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 libcolt-free-java-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libcolt-free-java-doc

How To Uninstall libcolt-free-java-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libcolt-free-java-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libcolt-free-java-doc

Uninstall libcolt-free-java-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcolt-free-java-doc

Remove libcolt-free-java-doc Configurations and Data

To remove libcolt-free-java-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libcolt-free-java-doc

Remove libcolt-free-java-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcolt-free-java-doc

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Summary

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