How To Install nauty on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nauty on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is nauty
nauty is:
nauty (No AUTomorphisms, Yes?) is a set of procedures for computing automorphism groups of graphs and digraphs. This mathematical software suite is developed by Brendan McKay and Adolfo Piperno: http://pallini.di.uniroma1.it
nauty computes graph information in the form of a set of generators, the size of the group, and the orbits of the group; it can also produce a canonical label. The nauty suite is written in C and comes with a command-line interface, a collection of command-line tools, and an Application Programming Interface (API).
This package provides the nauty interface named dreadnaut, and a small collection of utilities called gtools.
There are three methods to install nauty 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 nauty Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nauty using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nauty
Install nauty Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nauty using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nauty
Install nauty 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 nauty using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nauty
How To Uninstall nauty on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the nauty package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nauty
Uninstall nauty And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nauty and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nauty
Remove nauty Configurations and Data
To remove nauty configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nauty
Remove nauty configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nauty configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nauty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nauty package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
