How To Install libfetk1.9 on Debian 12

Learn how to install libfetk1.9 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libfetk1.9 is FETK libraries for APBS (shared libraries)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfetk1.9 on Debian 12.

What is libfetk1.9

libfetk1.9 is:

The Finite Element ToolKit (FETK) is a collection of adaptive finite element method (AFEM) software libraries and tools for solving coupled systems of nonlinear geometric partial differential equations (PDE). The FETK libraries and tools are written in an object-oriented form of ANSI-C and in C++, and include a collection of standard numerical libraries (PUNC), a stand-alone high-quality surface and volume simplex mesh generator (GAMer), a stand-alone networked polygon display tool (SG), a general nonlinear finite element modeling kernel (MC)

This package provides a fork of FETK intended for use by APBS (Adaptive Poisson Boltzmann Solver).

The FETK component MALOC (Minimal Abstraction Layer for Object-oriented C/C++ programs) is provided separately via libmaloc-dev.

This package contains the libgamer, libmc, libpunc (and libcgcode, libvf2c) shared libraries.

There are three methods to install libfetk1.9 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libfetk1.9 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libfetk1.9 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libfetk1.9

Install libfetk1.9 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libfetk1.9 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libfetk1.9

Install libfetk1.9 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 libfetk1.9 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libfetk1.9

How To Uninstall libfetk1.9 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libfetk1.9 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libfetk1.9

Uninstall libfetk1.9 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libfetk1.9 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libfetk1.9

Remove libfetk1.9 Configurations and Data

To remove libfetk1.9 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libfetk1.9

Remove libfetk1.9 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libfetk1.9 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libfetk1.9

Dependencies

libfetk1.9 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfetk1.9 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.