How To Install proofgeneral on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install proofgeneral
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is proofgeneral
proofgeneral is:
Proof General is a major mode to turn Emacs into an interactive proof assistant to write formal mathematical proofs using a variety of theorem provers.
This package provides Proof General support for Coq. (There is no other proof assistant that one could sensibly support.)
There are three methods to install proofgeneral
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install proofgeneral Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install proofgeneral
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install proofgeneral
Install proofgeneral Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install proofgeneral
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install proofgeneral
Install proofgeneral 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 proofgeneral
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install proofgeneral
How To Uninstall proofgeneral on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the proofgeneral
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove proofgeneral
Uninstall proofgeneral And Its Dependencies
To uninstall proofgeneral
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove proofgeneral
Remove proofgeneral Configurations and Data
To remove proofgeneral
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge proofgeneral
Remove proofgeneral configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove proofgeneral
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge proofgeneral
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install proofgeneral
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.