How To Install maxima-share on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install maxima-share on Ubuntu 18.04. maxima-share is Computer algebra system – extra code

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install maxima-share on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is maxima-share

maxima-share is:

Maxima is a fully symbolic computation program. It is full featured doing symbolic manipulation of polynomials, matrices, rational functions, integration, Todd-coxeter methods for finite group analysis, graphing, multiple precision floating point computation. It has a symbolic source level debugger for maxima code. Maxima is based on the original Macsyma developed at MIT in the 1970s. It is quite reliable, and has good garbage collection, and no memory leaks. It comes with hundreds of self tests.

This package contains a set of contributed routines and add-on packages.

There are three methods to install maxima-share 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 maxima-share Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install maxima-share

Install maxima-share Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install maxima-share

Install maxima-share 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 maxima-share using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install maxima-share

How To Uninstall maxima-share on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the maxima-share package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove maxima-share

Uninstall maxima-share And Its Dependencies

To uninstall maxima-share and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove maxima-share

Remove maxima-share Configurations and Data

To remove maxima-share configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge maxima-share

Remove maxima-share configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge maxima-share

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install maxima-share package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.