How To Install topcom-examples 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 topcom-examples on Ubuntu.
What is topcom-examples
topcom-examples is:
TOPCOM is a collection of clients to compute Triangulations Of Point Configurations and Oriented Matroids, resp.
The algorithms use only combinatorial data of the point configuration as is given by its oriented matroid. Some basic commands for computing and manipulating oriented matroids can also be accessed by the user.
It was very much inspired by the maple program PUNTOS, which was written by Jesus de Loera. TOPCOM is entirely written in C++, so there is a significant speed up compared to PUNTOS.
This package contains the architecture-independent example files.
There are three methods to install topcom-examples 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 topcom-examples Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install topcom-examples using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install topcom-examples
Install topcom-examples Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install topcom-examples using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install topcom-examples
Install topcom-examples 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 topcom-examples using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install topcom-examples
How To Uninstall topcom-examples on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the topcom-examples package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove topcom-examples
Uninstall topcom-examples And Its Dependencies
To uninstall topcom-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove topcom-examples
Remove topcom-examples Configurations and Data
To remove topcom-examples configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge topcom-examples
Remove topcom-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove topcom-examples configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge topcom-examples
Dependencies
topcom-examples have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install topcom-examples package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.