How To Install prover9-mace4 on Debian 10

Learn how to install prover9-mace4 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. prover9-mace4 is GUI for Prover9 and Mace4

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install prover9-mace4 on Debian 10.

What is prover9-mace4

prover9-mace4 is:

This package provides a graphical user interface for easily running the Prover9 theorem prover and the Mace4 countermodel generator along with a number of sample input files.

There are three methods to install prover9-mace4 on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install prover9-mace4 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install prover9-mace4 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install prover9-mace4

Install prover9-mace4 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install prover9-mace4 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install prover9-mace4

Install prover9-mace4 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 prover9-mace4 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install prover9-mace4

How To Uninstall prover9-mace4 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the prover9-mace4 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove prover9-mace4

Uninstall prover9-mace4 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall prover9-mace4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove prover9-mace4

Remove prover9-mace4 Configurations and Data

To remove prover9-mace4 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge prover9-mace4

Remove prover9-mace4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove prover9-mace4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prover9-mace4

Dependencies

prover9-mace4 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install prover9-mace4 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.