How To Install swi-prolog 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 on Ubuntu.

What is `swi-prolog`

swi-prolog 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 is a metapackage, it installs SWI-Prolog suit (except Java, ODBC, Berkeley DB support and tests).

There are three methods to install swi-prolog 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install swi-prolog

Install swi-prolog Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install swi-prolog

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

sudo aptitude -y install swi-prolog

How To Uninstall swi-prolog on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove swi-prolog

Uninstall swi-prolog And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove swi-prolog

Remove swi-prolog Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge swi-prolog

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

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

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

Dependencies

swi-prolog have the following dependencies:

References

swi-prolog website

Summary

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