How To Install nlopt-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nlopt-doc
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is nlopt-doc
nlopt-doc is:
NLopt is a free/open-source library for nonlinear optimization, providing a common interface for a number of different free optimization routines available online as well as original implementations of various other algorithms. Its features include:
* Callable from C, C++, Fortran, GNU Octave, Python, GNU Guile, GNU R.
* A common interface for many different algorithms
* Support for large-scale optimization.
* Both global and local optimization algorithms.
* Algorithms using function values only (derivative-free) and also
algorithms exploiting user-supplied gradients.
* Algorithms for unconstrained optimization, bound-constrained optimization,
and general nonlinear inequality/equality constraints.
This package provides the HTML documentation for nlopt.
There are three methods to install nlopt-doc
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nlopt-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nlopt-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nlopt-doc
Install nlopt-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nlopt-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nlopt-doc
Install nlopt-doc 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 nlopt-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nlopt-doc
How To Uninstall nlopt-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the nlopt-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nlopt-doc
Uninstall nlopt-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nlopt-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nlopt-doc
Remove nlopt-doc Configurations and Data
To remove nlopt-doc
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nlopt-doc
Remove nlopt-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nlopt-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nlopt-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nlopt-doc
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.