How To Install polymake-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install polymake-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is polymake-common
polymake-common is:
Polymake started out as a tool for the algorithmic treatment of convex polyhedra. By now it also deals with finite simplicial complexes, tight spans of finite metric spaces, polyhedral surfaces, and other discrete mathematical objects.
This package contains architecture independent material.
There are three methods to install polymake-common 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 polymake-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install polymake-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install polymake-common
Install polymake-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install polymake-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install polymake-common
Install polymake-common 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 polymake-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install polymake-common
How To Uninstall polymake-common on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the polymake-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove polymake-common
Uninstall polymake-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall polymake-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove polymake-common
Remove polymake-common Configurations and Data
To remove polymake-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge polymake-common
Remove polymake-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove polymake-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge polymake-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install polymake-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
