How To Install swi-prolog-bdb on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swi-prolog-bdb
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is swi-prolog-bdb
swi-prolog-bdb is:
SWI-Prolog is a fast and powerful ISO/Edinburgh-style Prolog compiler with a rich set of built-in predicates. It offers a fast, robust and small environment which enables substantial applications to be developed with it.
SWI-Prolog additionally offers:
- A powerful module system
- Garbage collection
- Unicode character set handling
- Unbounted integer and rational number arithmetic
- Multithreading support
- A powerful C/C++ interface
- GNU Readline interface
This package provides a foreign language extension to the Berkeley DB (libdb) embedded database.
There are three methods to install swi-prolog-bdb
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install swi-prolog-bdb Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install swi-prolog-bdb
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install swi-prolog-bdb
Install swi-prolog-bdb Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install swi-prolog-bdb
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install swi-prolog-bdb
Install swi-prolog-bdb 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 swi-prolog-bdb
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install swi-prolog-bdb
How To Uninstall swi-prolog-bdb on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the swi-prolog-bdb
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove swi-prolog-bdb
Uninstall swi-prolog-bdb And Its Dependencies
To uninstall swi-prolog-bdb
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove swi-prolog-bdb
Remove swi-prolog-bdb Configurations and Data
To remove swi-prolog-bdb
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge swi-prolog-bdb
Remove swi-prolog-bdb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove swi-prolog-bdb
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swi-prolog-bdb
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swi-prolog-bdb
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.