How To Install topcom on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install topcom
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is topcom
topcom is:
TOPCOM is a collection of clients to compute Triangulations Of Point Configurations and Oriented Matroids, resp.
The algorithms use only combinatorial data of the point configuration as is given by its oriented matroid. Some basic commands for computing and manipulating oriented matroids can also be accessed by the user.
It was very much inspired by the maple program PUNTOS, which was written by Jesus de Loera. TOPCOM is entirely written in C++, so there is a significant speed up compared to PUNTOS.
There are three methods to install topcom
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install topcom Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install topcom
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install topcom
Install topcom Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install topcom
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install topcom
Install topcom 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 topcom
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install topcom
How To Uninstall topcom on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the topcom
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove topcom
Uninstall topcom And Its Dependencies
To uninstall topcom
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove topcom
Remove topcom Configurations and Data
To remove topcom
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge topcom
Remove topcom configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove topcom
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge topcom
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install topcom
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.