How To Install primesieve-bin on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install primesieve-bin on Debian 12.
What is primesieve-bin
primesieve-bin is:
primesieve is a free software program and C/C++ library that generates primes using a highly optimized sieve of Eratosthenes implementation. primesieve can generate primes and prime k-tuplets up to nearly 2^64.
See http://primesieve.org/ for more information.
This package provides the command line utility primesieve.
There are three methods to install primesieve-bin on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install primesieve-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install primesieve-bin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install primesieve-bin
Install primesieve-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install primesieve-bin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install primesieve-bin
Install primesieve-bin 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install primesieve-bin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install primesieve-bin
How To Uninstall primesieve-bin on Debian 12
To uninstall only the primesieve-bin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove primesieve-bin
Uninstall primesieve-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall primesieve-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove primesieve-bin
Remove primesieve-bin Configurations and Data
To remove primesieve-bin configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge primesieve-bin
Remove primesieve-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove primesieve-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge primesieve-bin
Dependencies
primesieve-bin have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install primesieve-bin package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.