How To Install yacas on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yacas on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is yacas
yacas is:
Yacas is a small and highly flexible computer algebra language.
The syntax is very close to Mathematica. The distribution contains a small library of mathematical functions, but its real strength is in the language in which you can easily write your own symbolic manipulation algorithms. It supports arbitrary precision arithmetic.
There are three methods to install yacas 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 yacas Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install yacas using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install yacas
Install yacas Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install yacas using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install yacas
Install yacas 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 yacas using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install yacas
How To Uninstall yacas on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the yacas package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove yacas
Uninstall yacas And Its Dependencies
To uninstall yacas and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove yacas
Remove yacas Configurations and Data
To remove yacas configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge yacas
Remove yacas configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove yacas configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yacas
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yacas package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
