How To Install libpetsc3.7.5-dbg on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpetsc3.7.5-dbg on Debian 9.
What is libpetsc3.7.5-dbg
libpetsc3.7.5-dbg is:
PETSc is the “Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation”, a suite of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations. It employs the MPI standard for all message-passing communication. Several sample scientific applications, as well as various papers and talks, demonstrate the features of the PETSc libraries.
This package provides the development files and debugging libraries for debugging applications using PETSc 3.7.5.
Libraries include unstripped symbols, but this package is also built with internal PETSc debugging activated.
There are three methods to install libpetsc3.7.5-dbg 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 libpetsc3.7.5-dbg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libpetsc3.7.5-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libpetsc3.7.5-dbg
Install libpetsc3.7.5-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libpetsc3.7.5-dbg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libpetsc3.7.5-dbg
Install libpetsc3.7.5-dbg 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 libpetsc3.7.5-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libpetsc3.7.5-dbg
How To Uninstall libpetsc3.7.5-dbg on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libpetsc3.7.5-dbg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libpetsc3.7.5-dbg
Uninstall libpetsc3.7.5-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libpetsc3.7.5-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpetsc3.7.5-dbg
Remove libpetsc3.7.5-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove libpetsc3.7.5-dbg configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libpetsc3.7.5-dbg
Remove libpetsc3.7.5-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libpetsc3.7.5-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpetsc3.7.5-dbg
Dependencies
libpetsc3.7.5-dbg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpetsc3.7.5-dbg package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
