How To Install calc-common on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install calc-common on Ubuntu.
What is calc-common
calc-common is:
Calc is an arbitrary precision arithmetic system that uses a C-like language. Calc is useful as a calculator, an algorithm prototyper and as a mathematical research tool. More importantly, calc provides one with a machine independent means of computation. Calc comes with a rich set of builtin mathematical and programmatic functions.
This package contains architecture independent files required by the main package `calc'.
There are three methods to install calc-common on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install calc-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install calc-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install calc-common
Install calc-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install calc-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install calc-common
Install calc-common 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 calc-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install calc-common
How To Uninstall calc-common on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the calc-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove calc-common
Uninstall calc-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall calc-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove calc-common
Remove calc-common Configurations and Data
To remove calc-common configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge calc-common
Remove calc-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove calc-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge calc-common
Dependencies
calc-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install calc-common package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.