How To Install lammps on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps on Debian 10.
What is lammps
lammps is:
LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics code, and an acronym for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator.
LAMMPS has potentials for soft materials (biomolecules, polymers) and solid-state materials (metals, semiconductors) and coarse-grained or mesoscopic systems. It can be used to model atoms or, more generically, as a parallel particle simulator at the atomic, meso, or continuum scale.
LAMMPS runs on single processors or in parallel using message-passing techniques and a spatial-decomposition of the simulation domain. The code is designed to be easy to modify or extend with new functionality.
There are three methods to install lammps 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 lammps Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lammps using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lammps
Install lammps Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lammps using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lammps
Install lammps 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 lammps using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lammps
How To Uninstall lammps on Debian 10
To uninstall only the lammps package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lammps
Uninstall lammps And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lammps and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lammps
Remove lammps Configurations and Data
To remove lammps configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lammps
Remove lammps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lammps configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lammps
Dependencies
lammps have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
