How To Install libmpc3 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmpc3 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libmpc3
libmpc3 is:
MPC is a portable library written in C for arbitrary precision arithmetic on complex numbers providing correct rounding. For the time being, it contains all arithmetic operations over complex numbers, the exponential and the logarithm functions, the trigonometric and hyperbolic functions.
Ultimately, it should implement a multiprecision equivalent of the ISO C99 standard.
It builds upon the GNU MP and the MPFR libraries.
There are three methods to install libmpc3 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 libmpc3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmpc3 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmpc3
Install libmpc3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmpc3 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmpc3
Install libmpc3 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 libmpc3 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmpc3
How To Uninstall libmpc3 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libmpc3 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmpc3
Uninstall libmpc3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmpc3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmpc3
Remove libmpc3 Configurations and Data
To remove libmpc3 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmpc3
Remove libmpc3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmpc3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmpc3
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmpc3 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
