How To Install libmeep-lam4-dev on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmeep-lam4-dev on Debian 9. libmeep-lam4-dev is development library for using parallel (OpenMPI) version of meep

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmeep-lam4-dev on Debian 9.

What is libmeep-lam4-dev

libmeep-lam4-dev is:

Meep (or MEEP) is a free finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation software package developed at MIT to model electromagnetic systems.

Its features include:

  • Simulation in 1d, 2d, 3d, and cylindrical coordinates.
  • Distributed memory parallelism on any system supporting the MPI standard.
  • Dispersive (including loss/gain) and nonlinear (Kerr & Pockels) materials. Magnetic permeability and electric/magnetic conductivities.
  • PML absorbing boundaries and/or perfect conductor and/or Bloch-periodic boundary conditions.
  • Exploitation of symmetries to reduce the computation size . even/odd mirror symmetries and 90/180 degree rotations.
  • Complete scriptability - either via a Scheme scripting front-end (as in libctl and MPB), or callable as a C++ library.
  • Field output in the HDF5 standard scientific data format, supported by many visualization tools.
  • Arbitrary material and source distributions.
  • Field analyses including flux spectra, frequency extraction, and energy integrals; completely programmable.
  • Multi-parameter optimization, root-finding, integration, etcetera (via libctl).

This package contains some files for developing software linked to LAM4.

There are three methods to install libmeep-lam4-dev 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 libmeep-lam4-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libmeep-lam4-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libmeep-lam4-dev

Install libmeep-lam4-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libmeep-lam4-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libmeep-lam4-dev

Install libmeep-lam4-dev 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 libmeep-lam4-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmeep-lam4-dev

How To Uninstall libmeep-lam4-dev on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libmeep-lam4-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmeep-lam4-dev

Uninstall libmeep-lam4-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libmeep-lam4-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmeep-lam4-dev

Remove libmeep-lam4-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libmeep-lam4-dev configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libmeep-lam4-dev

Remove libmeep-lam4-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libmeep-lam4-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmeep-lam4-dev

Dependencies

libmeep-lam4-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmeep-lam4-dev package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.