How To Install swi-prolog-odbc 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 swi-prolog-odbc on Ubuntu.

What is `swi-prolog-odbc`

swi-prolog-odbc is:

SWI-Prolog is a fast and powerful ISO/Edinburgh-style Prolog compiler with a rich set of built-in predicates. It offers a fast, robust and small environment which enables substantial applications to be developed with it.

SWI-Prolog additionally offers:

A powerful module system
Garbage collection
Unicode character set handling
Unbounted integer and rational number arithmetic
Multithreading support
A powerful C/C++ interface
GNU Readline interface

This package provides a foreign language extension to ODBC, a standard for interfacing with database systems.

There are three methods to install swi-prolog-odbc 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 swi-prolog-odbc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install swi-prolog-odbc

Install swi-prolog-odbc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install swi-prolog-odbc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install swi-prolog-odbc

Install swi-prolog-odbc 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 swi-prolog-odbc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install swi-prolog-odbc

How To Uninstall swi-prolog-odbc on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the swi-prolog-odbc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove swi-prolog-odbc

Uninstall swi-prolog-odbc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove swi-prolog-odbc

Remove swi-prolog-odbc Configurations and Data

To remove swi-prolog-odbc configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge swi-prolog-odbc

Remove swi-prolog-odbc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove swi-prolog-odbc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swi-prolog-odbc

Dependencies

swi-prolog-odbc have the following dependencies:

References

swi-prolog-odbc website

Summary

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