How To Install coinor-libcoinutils3v5 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install coinor-libcoinutils3v5 on Ubuntu 18.04. coinor-libcoinutils3v5 is Coin-or collection of utility classes (binaries and libraries)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install coinor-libcoinutils3v5 on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is coinor-libcoinutils3v5

coinor-libcoinutils3v5 is:

CoinUtils (Coin-or Utilities) is a collection of classes and functions that are generally useful to more than one COIN-OR project. These include classes for vectors, matrices, mps file reading, and functions for floating-point comparisons.

The Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research (COIN-OR, or simply COIN) project is an initiative to spur the development of open source software for the operations research community.

This package contains the binaries and libraries.

There are three methods to install coinor-libcoinutils3v5 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 coinor-libcoinutils3v5 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install coinor-libcoinutils3v5 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install coinor-libcoinutils3v5

Install coinor-libcoinutils3v5 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install coinor-libcoinutils3v5 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install coinor-libcoinutils3v5

Install coinor-libcoinutils3v5 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 coinor-libcoinutils3v5 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install coinor-libcoinutils3v5

How To Uninstall coinor-libcoinutils3v5 on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the coinor-libcoinutils3v5 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove coinor-libcoinutils3v5

Uninstall coinor-libcoinutils3v5 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall coinor-libcoinutils3v5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove coinor-libcoinutils3v5

Remove coinor-libcoinutils3v5 Configurations and Data

To remove coinor-libcoinutils3v5 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge coinor-libcoinutils3v5

Remove coinor-libcoinutils3v5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove coinor-libcoinutils3v5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge coinor-libcoinutils3v5

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install coinor-libcoinutils3v5 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.