How To Install libmpc-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmpc-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libmpc-dev
libmpc-dev is:
MPC is a portable library written in C for arbitrary precision arithmetic on complex numbers providing correct rounding. For the time being, it contains all arithmetic operations over complex numbers, the exponential and the logarithm functions, the trigonometric and hyperbolic functions.
Ultimately, it should implement a multiprecision equivalent of the ISO C99 standard.
It builds upon the GNU MP and the MPFR libraries.
There are three methods to install libmpc-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libmpc-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmpc-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmpc-dev
Install libmpc-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmpc-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmpc-dev
Install libmpc-dev 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 libmpc-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmpc-dev
How To Uninstall libmpc-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libmpc-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmpc-dev
Uninstall libmpc-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmpc-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmpc-dev
Remove libmpc-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libmpc-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmpc-dev
Remove libmpc-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmpc-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmpc-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmpc-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
