How To Install picosat on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is picosat

picosat is:

Despite the NP completeness of the satisfiabilty 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.

PicoSAT is a SAT solver that turned out to be faster on industrial instances than MiniSAT 2.0 and also can generate proofs and cores in memory.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install picosat

Install picosat Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install picosat

Install picosat 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 picosat using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install picosat

How To Uninstall picosat on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove picosat

Uninstall picosat And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove picosat

Remove picosat Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge picosat

Remove picosat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge picosat

Dependencies

picosat have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• picosat website

Summary

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