How To Install python3-optlang on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-optlang on Debian 10.
What is python3-optlang
python3-optlang is:
Optlang is a Python package for solving mathematical optimization problems, i.e. maximizing or minimizing an objective function over a set of variables subject to a number of constraints. Optlang provides a common interface to a series of optimization tools, so different solver backends can be changed in a transparent way. Optlang’s object-oriented API takes advantage of the symbolic math library sympy to allow objective functions and constraints to be easily formulated from symbolic expressions of variables.
This package installs the library for Python 3.
There are three methods to install python3-optlang 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 python3-optlang Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-optlang using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-optlang
Install python3-optlang Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-optlang using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-optlang
Install python3-optlang 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 python3-optlang using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-optlang
How To Uninstall python3-optlang on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python3-optlang package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-optlang
Uninstall python3-optlang And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-optlang and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-optlang
Remove python3-optlang Configurations and Data
To remove python3-optlang configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-optlang
Remove python3-optlang configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-optlang configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-optlang
Dependencies
python3-optlang have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-optlang package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.