How To Install libsc-data on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsc-data
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libsc-data
libsc-data is:
The Scientific Computing toolkit (SC) provides C++ class libraries for scientific computation. Included are classes for managing memory, saving and restoring the state of objects, reading objects from an input file, parallel communication, matrix algebra, among others.
Class libraries supporting quantum chemistry applications are provided with this distribution of SC.
This package includes the basis set and atom data.
There are three methods to install libsc-data
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libsc-data Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libsc-data
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libsc-data
Install libsc-data Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libsc-data
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libsc-data
Install libsc-data 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libsc-data
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libsc-data
How To Uninstall libsc-data on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libsc-data
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libsc-data
Uninstall libsc-data And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsc-data
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsc-data
Remove libsc-data Configurations and Data
To remove libsc-data
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libsc-data
Remove libsc-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsc-data
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsc-data
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsc-data
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.