How To Install flatzinc on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flatzinc
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is flatzinc
flatzinc is:
FlatZinc is a low-level modelling language for constraint problems. It is designed to be easily interfaceable to constraint solvers (like Gecode). For more information on FlatZinc, please refer to the MiniZinc pages of the G12 project https://www.minizinc.org/.
The FlatZinc interpreter that ships with Gecode supports the FlatZinc language and MiniZinc global constraint definitions of MiniZinc version 1.6.0.
There are three methods to install flatzinc
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 flatzinc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install flatzinc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install flatzinc
Install flatzinc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install flatzinc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install flatzinc
Install flatzinc 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 flatzinc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install flatzinc
How To Uninstall flatzinc on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the flatzinc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove flatzinc
Uninstall flatzinc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall flatzinc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove flatzinc
Remove flatzinc Configurations and Data
To remove flatzinc
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge flatzinc
Remove flatzinc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove flatzinc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flatzinc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flatzinc
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.