How To Install liblbfgsb-doc on Debian 10

Learn how to install liblbfgsb-doc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. liblbfgsb-doc is Limited-memory quasi-Newton bound-constrained optimization (documentation)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblbfgsb-doc on Debian 10.

What is `liblbfgsb-doc`

liblbfgsb-doc is:

Fortran library implementing limited-memory quasi-Newton bound-constrained optimization as described in [1,2,3].

This package contains the documentation describing the library and algorithm.

[1] R. H. Byrd, P. Lu and J. Nocedal. A Limited Memory Algorithm for Bound Constrained Optimization, (1995), SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing , 16, 5, pp. 1190-1208.

[2] C. Zhu, R. H. Byrd and J. Nocedal. L-BFGS-B: Algorithm 778: L-BFGS-B, FORTRAN routines for large scale bound constrained optimization (1997), ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol 23, Num. 4, pp. 550 - 560.

[3] J.L. Morales and J. Nocedal. L-BFGS-B: Remark on Algorithm 778: L-BFGS-B, FORTRAN routines for large scale bound constrained optimization (2011), to appear in ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software.

There are three methods to install liblbfgsb-doc on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install liblbfgsb-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 liblbfgsb-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblbfgsb-doc

Install liblbfgsb-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install liblbfgsb-doc

Install liblbfgsb-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install liblbfgsb-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblbfgsb-doc

How To Uninstall liblbfgsb-doc on Debian 10

To uninstall only the liblbfgsb-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblbfgsb-doc

Uninstall liblbfgsb-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblbfgsb-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblbfgsb-doc

Remove liblbfgsb-doc Configurations and Data

To remove liblbfgsb-doc configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblbfgsb-doc

Remove liblbfgsb-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblbfgsb-doc

Dependencies

liblbfgsb-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblbfgsb-doc package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.