How To Install minisat on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is minisat

minisat is:

Despite the NP completeness of the satisfiability problem of Boolean formulas (SAT), SAT solvers are often able to decide this problem in a reasonable time frame. As all other NP complete problems are reducible to SAT, the solvers have become a general purpose tool for this class of problems.

MiniSat is a minimalistic, open-source SAT solver, developed to help researchers and developers alike to get started on SAT. Winning all the industrial categories of the SAT 2005 competition, MiniSat is a good starting point both for future research in SAT, and for applications using SAT.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install minisat

Install minisat Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install minisat

Install minisat 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 minisat using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install minisat

How To Uninstall minisat on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove minisat

Uninstall minisat And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove minisat

Remove minisat Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge minisat

Remove minisat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge minisat

Dependencies

minisat have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• minisat website

Summary

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