How To Install libspfft0 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libspfft0 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libspfft0
libspfft0 is:
SpFFT was originally intended for transforms of data with spherical cutoff in frequency domain, as required by some computational material science codes. For distributed computations, SpFFT uses a slab decomposition in space domain and pencil decomposition in frequency domain (all sparse data within a pencil must be on one rank). If desired, the libray can be compiled without any parallelization (MPI, OpenMP, CUDA / ROCm).
There are three methods to install libspfft0 on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libspfft0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libspfft0 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libspfft0
Install libspfft0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libspfft0 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libspfft0
Install libspfft0 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 libspfft0 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libspfft0
How To Uninstall libspfft0 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libspfft0 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libspfft0
Uninstall libspfft0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libspfft0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libspfft0
Remove libspfft0 Configurations and Data
To remove libspfft0 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libspfft0
Remove libspfft0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libspfft0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libspfft0
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libspfft0 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.