Information about the package, gfan, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The gfan package is designed for, Software for Computing Gröbner Fans and Tropical Varieties.
Package Name:
gfan
Summary:
Software for Computing Gröbner Fans and Tropical Varieties
Description:
The software computes all marked reduced Gröbner bases of an ideal. Their union is a universal Gröbner basis. Gfan contains algorithms for computing this complex for general ideals and specialized algorithms for tropical curves, tropical hypersurfaces and tropical varieties of prime ideals. In addition to the above core functions the package contains many tools which are useful in the study of Gröbner bases, initial ideals and tropical geometry. Among these are an interactive traversal program for Gröbner fans and programs for graphical renderings.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.3
Release:
8.el6
Size:
396 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL+
Control the gfan package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install gfan
This command will install gfan on the server.
yum remove gfan
This command will un-install gfan on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gfan, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove gfan
This command will un-install gfan on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove gfan when using the -y flag.
yum update gfan
This command will update gfan to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gfan, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update gfan
This command will update gfan to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove gfan when using the -y flag.
yum info gfan
This command will show you core information about the gfan package.
yum deplist gfan
This command will show you the dependencies for gfan. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update gfan
This command will check if there is an update waiting on gfan. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.