How To Install python-meep on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-meep on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-meep is software package for FDTD simulation with Python

Introduction

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

What is python-meep

python-meep 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 Python binding

There are three methods to install python-meep 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 python-meep Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-meep

Install python-meep Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-meep

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-meep

How To Uninstall python-meep on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-meep

Uninstall python-meep And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-meep

Remove python-meep Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-meep

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-meep have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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