How To Install libcvc4-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcvc4-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libcvc4-dev
libcvc4-dev is:
CVC4 is an efficient automatic theorem prover for satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) problems. It can be used to prove the validity (or, dually, the satisfiability) of first-order formulas in a large number of built-in logical theories and their combination.
CVC4 is intended to be an open and extensible SMT engine, and it can be used as a stand-alone tool or as a library. It is the fourth in the Cooperating Validity Checker family of tools (also including CVC, CVC Lite and CVC3). CVC4 has been designed to increase the performance and reduce the memory overhead of its predecessors.
This package contains development files for CVC4. Install it if you want to develop applications that use CVC4’s API.
There are three methods to install libcvc4-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libcvc4-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcvc4-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcvc4-dev
Install libcvc4-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcvc4-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcvc4-dev
Install libcvc4-dev 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 libcvc4-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcvc4-dev
How To Uninstall libcvc4-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libcvc4-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcvc4-dev
Uninstall libcvc4-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcvc4-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcvc4-dev
Remove libcvc4-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libcvc4-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcvc4-dev
Remove libcvc4-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcvc4-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcvc4-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcvc4-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.