How To Install libocas-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libocas-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libocas-dev
libocas-dev is:
This library implements Optimized Cutting Plane Algorithm (OCAS) for training linear Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers from large-scale data. The computational effort of OCAS scales linearly with the number of training examples. It is one of the fastest SVM solvers around for solving linear and multiclass L2 regularized SVMs.
This package contains the header files and static libraries.
There are three methods to install libocas-dev 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 libocas-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 libocas-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libocas-dev
Install libocas-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libocas-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libocas-dev
Install libocas-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 libocas-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libocas-dev
How To Uninstall libocas-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libocas-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libocas-dev
Uninstall libocas-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libocas-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libocas-dev
Remove libocas-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libocas-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libocas-dev
Remove libocas-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libocas-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libocas-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libocas-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
