How To Install meep-lam4 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install meep-lam4 on Debian 10.
What is meep-lam4
meep-lam4 is:
Meep is a free and open-source software package for electromagnetics simulation via the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method.
Its features include:
- Free and open-source software under the GNU GPL.
- Complete scriptability via Python, Scheme, or C++ APIs.
- Simulation in 1d, 2d, 3d, and cylindrical coordinates.
- Distributed memory parallelism on any system supporting MPI.
- Arbitrary anisotropic electric permittivity ? and magnetic permeability ?, along with dispersive ?(?) and ?(?) including loss/gain, nonlinear (Kerr & Pockels) dielectric and magnetic materials, electric/magnetic conductivities ?, and saturable gain/absorption.
- Perfectly-matched layer (PML) absorbing boundaries as well as Bloch-periodic and perfect-conductor boundary conditions.
- Exploitation of symmetries to reduce the computation size, including even/odd mirror planes and 90?/180? rotations.
- Arbitrary current sources including a guided-mode launcher.
- Frequency-domain solver for finding the response to a continuous-wave (CW) source.
- ?/? and field import/export in the HDF5 data format.
- GDSII file import for planar geometries.
- Materials library containing predefined broadband, complex refractive indices.
- Field analyses including Poynting flux, mode decomposition, near to far transformations, frequency extraction, local density of states (LDOS), modal volume, Maxwell stress tensor, arbitrary functions; completely programmable.
This package contains the LAM4 version of the software.
There are three methods to install meep-lam4 on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install meep-lam4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install meep-lam4 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install meep-lam4
Install meep-lam4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install meep-lam4 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install meep-lam4
Install meep-lam4 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 meep-lam4 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install meep-lam4
How To Uninstall meep-lam4 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the meep-lam4 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove meep-lam4
Uninstall meep-lam4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall meep-lam4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove meep-lam4
Remove meep-lam4 Configurations and Data
To remove meep-lam4 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge meep-lam4
Remove meep-lam4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove meep-lam4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge meep-lam4
Dependencies
meep-lam4 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install meep-lam4 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
