How To Install form on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install form
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is form
form is:
This is a Symbolic Manipulation System. It reads symbolic expressions from files and executes symbolic/algebraic transformations upon them. The answers are returned in a textual mathematical representation. As its landmark feature, the size of the considered expressions in FORM is only limited by the available disk space and not by the available RAM.
There are three methods to install form
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 form Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install form
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install form
Install form Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install form
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install form
Install form 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 form
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install form
How To Uninstall form on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the form
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove form
Uninstall form And Its Dependencies
To uninstall form
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove form
Remove form Configurations and Data
To remove form
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge form
Remove form configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove form
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge form
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install form
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.