How To Install sympow on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sympow on Kali Linux.

What is sympow

sympow is:

SYMPOW is a mathematical program to compute special values of symmetric power elliptic curve L-functions; it can compute up to about 64 digits of precision.

This package provides the SYMPOW program itself.

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

Install sympow Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install sympow

Install sympow Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install sympow

Install sympow Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install sympow

How To Uninstall sympow on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove sympow

Uninstall sympow And Its Dependencies

To uninstall sympow and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sympow

Remove sympow Configurations and Data

To remove sympow configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge sympow

Remove sympow configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sympow

Dependencies

sympow have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• sympow-data
• pari-gp

References

• sympow website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sympow package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.