How To Install python-meep-openmpi on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-meep-openmpi on Debian 10.
What is python-meep-openmpi
python-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 Python binding
There are three methods to install python-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 python-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 python-meep-openmpi using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-meep-openmpi
Install python-meep-openmpi Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-meep-openmpi using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-meep-openmpi
Install python-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 python-meep-openmpi using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-meep-openmpi
How To Uninstall python-meep-openmpi on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python-meep-openmpi package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-meep-openmpi
Uninstall python-meep-openmpi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-meep-openmpi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-meep-openmpi
Remove python-meep-openmpi Configurations and Data
To remove python-meep-openmpi configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-meep-openmpi
Remove python-meep-openmpi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-meep-openmpi configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-meep-openmpi
Dependencies
python-meep-openmpi have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-meep-openmpi package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
