How To Install alt-ergo on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install alt-ergo on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is alt-ergo
alt-ergo is:
Alt-Ergo is an automatic theorem prover geared towards application in program verification. It is based on CC(X), a congruence closure algorithm parameterized by an equational theory X. Alt-Ergo has built-in provers for propositional logic, linear arithmetic, uninterpreted function symbols, associative-commutative function symbols, polymorphic arrays, user-defined polymorphic record types and polymorphic enumeration types. It has restricted support for reasoning over arbitrary user-defined algebraic types, first-order quantifiers, and non-linear arithmetic.
This package contains the prover as a command-line executable.
There are three methods to install alt-ergo 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 alt-ergo Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install alt-ergo using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install alt-ergo
Install alt-ergo Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install alt-ergo using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install alt-ergo
Install alt-ergo 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 alt-ergo using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install alt-ergo
How To Uninstall alt-ergo on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the alt-ergo package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove alt-ergo
Uninstall alt-ergo And Its Dependencies
To uninstall alt-ergo and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove alt-ergo
Remove alt-ergo Configurations and Data
To remove alt-ergo configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge alt-ergo
Remove alt-ergo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove alt-ergo configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alt-ergo
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install alt-ergo package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
