How To Install libsymmetrica2 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsymmetrica2 on Kali Linux.

What is libsymmetrica2

libsymmetrica2 is:

Symmetrica is a library for combinatorics. It has support for the representation theory of the symmetric group and related groups, combinatorics of tableaux, symmetric functions and polynomials, Schubert polynomials, and the representation theory of Hecke algebras of type A_n.

This package provides the shared library required to run programs compiled against the Symmetrica Combinatoric C Library. To compile your own program you also need to install the libsymmetrica2-dev package.

There are three methods to install libsymmetrica2 on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libsymmetrica2 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libsymmetrica2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libsymmetrica2

Install libsymmetrica2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libsymmetrica2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libsymmetrica2

Install libsymmetrica2 Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libsymmetrica2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libsymmetrica2

How To Uninstall libsymmetrica2 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libsymmetrica2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libsymmetrica2

Uninstall libsymmetrica2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libsymmetrica2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsymmetrica2

Remove libsymmetrica2 Configurations and Data

To remove libsymmetrica2 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libsymmetrica2

Remove libsymmetrica2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libsymmetrica2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsymmetrica2

Dependencies

libsymmetrica2 have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• libsymmetrica2 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsymmetrica2 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.