How To Install libspfft1 on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libspfft1
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libspfft1
libspfft1 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 library can be compiled without any parallelization (MPI, OpenMP, CUDA / ROCm).
There are three methods to install libspfft1
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libspfft1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libspfft1
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libspfft1
Install libspfft1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libspfft1
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libspfft1
Install libspfft1 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 libspfft1
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libspfft1
How To Uninstall libspfft1 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libspfft1
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libspfft1
Uninstall libspfft1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libspfft1
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libspfft1
Remove libspfft1 Configurations and Data
To remove libspfft1
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libspfft1
Remove libspfft1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libspfft1
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libspfft1
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libspfft1
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.