How To Install lammps-data on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps-data
on Kali Linux.
What is lammps-data
lammps-data is:
LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics code, and an acronym for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator.
LAMMPS has potentials for soft materials (biomolecules, polymers) and solid-state materials (metals, semiconductors) and coarse-grained or mesoscopic systems. It can be used to model atoms or, more generically, as a parallel particle simulator at the atomic, meso, or continuum scale.
LAMMPS runs on single processors or in parallel using message-passing techniques and a spatial-decomposition of the simulation domain. The code is designed to be easy to modify or extend with new functionality.
The package contains data (potentials)
There are three methods to install lammps-data
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install lammps-data Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lammps-data
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lammps-data
Install lammps-data Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lammps-data
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lammps-data
Install lammps-data Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install lammps-data
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lammps-data
How To Uninstall lammps-data on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the lammps-data
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lammps-data
Uninstall lammps-data And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lammps-data
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lammps-data
Remove lammps-data Configurations and Data
To remove lammps-data
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lammps-data
Remove lammps-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lammps-data
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lammps-data
Dependencies
lammps-data have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps-data
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.