How To Install flang-7 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flang-7
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is flang-7
flang-7 is:
This is a Fortran compiler using LLVM.
There are three methods to install flang-7
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install flang-7 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install flang-7
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install flang-7
Install flang-7 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install flang-7
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install flang-7
Install flang-7 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 flang-7
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install flang-7
How To Uninstall flang-7 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the flang-7
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove flang-7
Uninstall flang-7 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall flang-7
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove flang-7
Remove flang-7 Configurations and Data
To remove flang-7
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge flang-7
Remove flang-7 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove flang-7
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flang-7
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flang-7
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.