How To Install meep-openmpi on Debian 10

Learn how to install meep-openmpi on Debian 10 with this tutorial. meep-openmpi is software package for FDTD simulation, parallel (OpenMPI) version

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install meep-openmpi on Debian 10.

What is meep-openmpi

meep-openmpi 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 MPI version of the software. As opposed to meep-mpi this package also contains the OpenMPI version of libhdf5.

There are three methods to install meep-openmpi 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-openmpi 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-openmpi using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install meep-openmpi

Install meep-openmpi Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install meep-openmpi using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install meep-openmpi

Install meep-openmpi 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-openmpi using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install meep-openmpi

How To Uninstall meep-openmpi on Debian 10

To uninstall only the meep-openmpi package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove meep-openmpi

Uninstall meep-openmpi And Its Dependencies

To uninstall meep-openmpi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove meep-openmpi

Remove meep-openmpi Configurations and Data

To remove meep-openmpi configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge meep-openmpi

Remove meep-openmpi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove meep-openmpi configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge meep-openmpi

Dependencies

meep-openmpi have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install meep-openmpi package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.