How To Install minizinc on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is minizinc

minizinc is:

MiniZinc is a medium-level constraint modelling language. It is high-level enough to express most constraint problems easily, but low-level enough that it can be mapped onto existing solvers easily and consistently. It is a subset of the higher-level language Zinc.

MiniZinc is designed to interface easily to different backend solvers. It does this by transforming an input MiniZinc model and data file into a FlatZinc model. FlatZinc models consist of variable declaration and constraint definitions as well as a definition of the objective function if the problem is an optimization problem. The translation from MiniZinc to FlatZinc is specializable to individual backend solvers, so they can control what form constraints end up in. In particular, MiniZinc allows the specification of global constraints by decomposition.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install minizinc

Install minizinc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install minizinc

Install minizinc 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 minizinc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install minizinc

How To Uninstall minizinc on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove minizinc

Uninstall minizinc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove minizinc

Remove minizinc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge minizinc

Remove minizinc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge minizinc

Dependencies

minizinc have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libgecode49
• libgecodegist49
• libstdc++6
• flatzinc

References

• minizinc website

Summary

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