How To Install liblrs-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install liblrs-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. liblrs-dev is package to enumerate vertices and extreme rays (development file)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblrs-dev on Debian 10.

What is liblrs-dev

liblrs-dev is:

A convex polyhedron is the set of points satisfying a finite family of linear inequalities. The study of the vertices and extreme rays of such systems is important and useful in e.g. mathematics and optimization. In a dual interpretation, finding the vertices of a (bounded) polyhedron is equivalent to finding the convex hull (bounding inequalities) of an (arbitrary dimensional) set of points. Lrs (lexicographic reverse search) has two important features that can be very important for certain applications: it works in exact arithmetic, and it consumes memory proportional to the input, no matter how large the output is.

This package contains the optional headers, and a unversioned symlink to the library, useful for developers.

There are three methods to install liblrs-dev 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 liblrs-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 liblrs-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblrs-dev

Install liblrs-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install liblrs-dev

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

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install liblrs-dev

How To Uninstall liblrs-dev on Debian 10

To uninstall only the liblrs-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblrs-dev

Uninstall liblrs-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblrs-dev

Remove liblrs-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge liblrs-dev

Remove liblrs-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblrs-dev

Dependencies

liblrs-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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