How To Install polymake 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 polymake on Ubuntu.

What is `polymake`

polymake is:

Polymake started out as a tool for the algorithmic treatment of convex polyhedra. By now it also deals with finite simplicial complexes, tight spans of finite metric spaces, polyhedral surfaces, and other discrete mathematical objects.

This package contains the core module and the application modules.

There are three methods to install polymake 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 polymake Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install polymake using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install polymake

Install polymake Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install polymake using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install polymake

Install polymake 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 polymake using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install polymake

How To Uninstall polymake on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the polymake package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove polymake

Uninstall polymake And Its Dependencies

To uninstall polymake and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove polymake

Remove polymake Configurations and Data

To remove polymake configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge polymake

Remove polymake configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove polymake configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge polymake

Dependencies

polymake have the following dependencies:

References

polymake website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install polymake package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.