How To Install mathicgb on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is mathicgb

mathicgb is:

Mathicgb is a program for computing Groebner basis and signature Groebner bases. Mathicgb is based on the fast data structures from mathic.

The paper “Practical Groebner Basis Computation” describes the algorithms in Mathicgb from a high level. It was presented at ISSAC 2012 and is available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6940

This package contains the command line tool.

There are three methods to install mathicgb 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 mathicgb Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mathicgb

Install mathicgb Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mathicgb

Install mathicgb 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 mathicgb using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mathicgb

How To Uninstall mathicgb on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove mathicgb

Uninstall mathicgb And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mathicgb

Remove mathicgb Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge mathicgb

Remove mathicgb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mathicgb

Dependencies

mathicgb have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libmathic0v5
• libmathicgb0
• libmemtailor0
• libstdc++6
• libtbb2

References

• mathicgb website

Summary

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