How To Install libscscp1 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libscscp1 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libscscp1
libscscp1 is:
SCSCP stands for Symbolic Computation Software Composibility Protocol. This protocol is developed by the European project SCIEnce - Symbolic Computation Infrastructure for Europe: http://www.symbolic-computing.org
This C/C++ library, which is developed by the French Institute of Celestial Mechanics and Ephemeridesis Calculus (IMCCE) consists of an implementation of the SCSCP protocol. It provides an Application Programming Interface (API) to develop client and server applications to communicate with systems that support the SCSCP protocol, mainly Computer Algebra Systems (CAS).
This package provides the shared libraries required to run programs compiled against the SCSCP library developed at IMCCE. To compile your own programs you also need to install the libscscp1-dev package.
There are three methods to install libscscp1 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 libscscp1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libscscp1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libscscp1
Install libscscp1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libscscp1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libscscp1
Install libscscp1 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 libscscp1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libscscp1
How To Uninstall libscscp1 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libscscp1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libscscp1
Uninstall libscscp1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libscscp1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libscscp1
Remove libscscp1 Configurations and Data
To remove libscscp1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libscscp1
Remove libscscp1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libscscp1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libscscp1
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libscscp1 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
