How To Install setop on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install setop on Ubuntu 18.04. setop is apply set operations like intersection to text inputs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install setop on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is setop

setop is:

setop is a simple console utility for handling multiple inputs from files or other streams as mathematical sets. That is you can apply typical set operations like union, intersection, or set difference and print a resulting set (sorted and with unique string elements) to standard output or you can give answer to special queries like number of elements.

Besides the default line-based parsing there are several options for choosing input sets and identifying set elements, and there are also several options for the type of output, e. g. it is possible to check for set equality or to check if one set is a subset of another.

There are three methods to install setop on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install setop Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install setop

Install setop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install setop using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install setop

Install setop 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 setop using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install setop

How To Uninstall setop on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the setop package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove setop

Uninstall setop And Its Dependencies

To uninstall setop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove setop

Remove setop Configurations and Data

To remove setop configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge setop

Remove setop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge setop

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install setop package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.