How To Install swi-prolog on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swi-prolog on Debian 12.
What is swi-prolog
swi-prolog 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 is a metapackage, it installs SWI-Prolog suit (except Java, ODBC, Berkeley DB support and tests).
There are three methods to install swi-prolog on Debian 12. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install swi-prolog
Install swi-prolog Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install swi-prolog using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install swi-prolog
Install swi-prolog 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 swi-prolog using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install swi-prolog
How To Uninstall swi-prolog on Debian 12
To uninstall only the swi-prolog package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove swi-prolog
Uninstall swi-prolog And Its Dependencies
To uninstall swi-prolog and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove swi-prolog
Remove swi-prolog Configurations and Data
To remove swi-prolog configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge swi-prolog
Remove swi-prolog configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove swi-prolog configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swi-prolog
Dependencies
swi-prolog have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swi-prolog package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.