How To Install libocas-tools on Debian 10

Learn how to install libocas-tools on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libocas-tools is Standalone applications implementing the OCAS solver

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libocas-tools on Debian 10.

What is libocas-tools

libocas-tools 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 standalone applications.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libocas-tools

Install libocas-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libocas-tools

Install libocas-tools 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 libocas-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libocas-tools

How To Uninstall libocas-tools on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libocas-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libocas-tools

Uninstall libocas-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libocas-tools

Remove libocas-tools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libocas-tools

Remove libocas-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libocas-tools

Dependencies

libocas-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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