How To Install libmeep-openmpi8 on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmeep-openmpi8 on Debian 9. libmeep-openmpi8 is library for using parallel (OpenMPI) version of meep

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmeep-openmpi8 on Debian 9.

What is libmeep-openmpi8

libmeep-openmpi8 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 the MPI version of the library.

There are three methods to install libmeep-openmpi8 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-openmpi8 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-openmpi8 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libmeep-openmpi8

Install libmeep-openmpi8 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libmeep-openmpi8 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libmeep-openmpi8

Install libmeep-openmpi8 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-openmpi8 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmeep-openmpi8

How To Uninstall libmeep-openmpi8 on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libmeep-openmpi8 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmeep-openmpi8

Uninstall libmeep-openmpi8 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libmeep-openmpi8 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmeep-openmpi8

Remove libmeep-openmpi8 Configurations and Data

To remove libmeep-openmpi8 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libmeep-openmpi8

Remove libmeep-openmpi8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libmeep-openmpi8 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmeep-openmpi8

Dependencies

libmeep-openmpi8 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmeep-openmpi8 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.