How To Install polymake on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install polymake
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is polymake
polymake 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 the core module and the application modules.
There are three methods to install polymake
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 polymake 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install polymake
Install polymake Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install polymake
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install polymake
Install polymake 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install polymake
How To Uninstall polymake on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the polymake
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove polymake
Uninstall polymake And Its Dependencies
To uninstall polymake
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove polymake
Remove polymake Configurations and Data
To remove polymake
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge polymake
Remove polymake configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove polymake
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge polymake
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install polymake
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.