How To Install deap-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install deap-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. deap-doc is Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms in Python (docs)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install deap-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is deap-doc

deap-doc is:

DEAP is a novel evolutionary computation framework for rapid prototyping and testing of ideas. It seeks to make algorithms explicit and data structures transparent. It works in perfect harmony with parallelisation mechanism such as multiprocessing and SCOOP.

This package contains the documentation.

There are three methods to install deap-doc 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 deap-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install deap-doc

Install deap-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install deap-doc

Install deap-doc 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 deap-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install deap-doc

How To Uninstall deap-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the deap-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove deap-doc

Uninstall deap-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove deap-doc

Remove deap-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge deap-doc

Remove deap-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge deap-doc

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Summary

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