How To Install libblacs-openmpi1 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libblacs-openmpi1 on Debian 9.
What is libblacs-openmpi1
libblacs-openmpi1 is:
The BLACS project is an ongoing investigation whose purpose is to create a linear algebra oriented message passing interface that may be implemented efficiently and uniformly across a large range of distributed memory platforms.
You can choose between an implementation based on MPI or PVM. This package uses MPI. There are packages for the shared libraries (this one), for the static libraries and the development files, and for test programs.
Most users do not need to install this package directly because it is used as a high level driver for the communication in the ScaLAPACK packages. Therefore, it is installed when installing ScaLAPACK. ScaLAPACK is a parallel version of LAPACK and is used on Beowulf type clusters.
There are three methods to install libblacs-openmpi1 on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libblacs-openmpi1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libblacs-openmpi1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libblacs-openmpi1
Install libblacs-openmpi1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libblacs-openmpi1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libblacs-openmpi1
Install libblacs-openmpi1 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libblacs-openmpi1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libblacs-openmpi1
How To Uninstall libblacs-openmpi1 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libblacs-openmpi1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libblacs-openmpi1
Uninstall libblacs-openmpi1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libblacs-openmpi1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libblacs-openmpi1
Remove libblacs-openmpi1 Configurations and Data
To remove libblacs-openmpi1 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libblacs-openmpi1
Remove libblacs-openmpi1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libblacs-openmpi1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libblacs-openmpi1
Dependencies
libblacs-openmpi1 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libblacs-openmpi1 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.