How To Install libgsl-dbg on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgsl-dbg
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libgsl-dbg
libgsl-dbg is:
The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a collection of routines for numerical analysis. The routines are written from scratch by the GSL team in C, and present a modern API for C programmers, while allowing wrappers to be written for very high level languages.
This package contains debugging symbol tables for the static GSL libraries libgsl and libgslcblas from the libgsl-dev package, and the binaries gsl-randist and gsl-histogram from the gsl-bin package.
URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ Build-Ids: 1aa8f00a263be4940bebf348d37810bc5952c528 3656530a6c84b0c933dca4bfefa8fc1b955d4c37 8d373764e907b339b7e312b9511da638bec429d9 e7a2239d1c1e73185f5ae4c6cd55c0e3e6ae23e0
There are three methods to install libgsl-dbg
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 libgsl-dbg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libgsl-dbg
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libgsl-dbg
Install libgsl-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libgsl-dbg
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libgsl-dbg
Install libgsl-dbg 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 libgsl-dbg
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libgsl-dbg
How To Uninstall libgsl-dbg on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libgsl-dbg
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libgsl-dbg
Uninstall libgsl-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libgsl-dbg
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgsl-dbg
Remove libgsl-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove libgsl-dbg
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libgsl-dbg
Remove libgsl-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libgsl-dbg
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgsl-dbg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgsl-dbg
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.