How To Install liggghts on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liggghts on Debian 11.
What is liggghts
liggghts is:
LIGGGHTS stands for LAMMPS improved for general granular and granular heat transfer simulations.
LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics simulator. It is widely used in the field of Molecular Dynamics. Thanks to physical and algorithmic analogies, LAMMPS is a very good platform for DEM simulations. LAMMPS offers a GRANULAR package to perform these kind of simulations. LIGGGHTS aims to improve those capability with the goal to apply it to industrial applications. Development version.
There are three methods to install liggghts on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install liggghts Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liggghts using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liggghts
Install liggghts Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liggghts using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liggghts
Install liggghts 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 liggghts using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liggghts
How To Uninstall liggghts on Debian 11
To uninstall only the liggghts package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liggghts
Uninstall liggghts And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liggghts and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liggghts
Remove liggghts Configurations and Data
To remove liggghts configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liggghts
Remove liggghts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liggghts configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liggghts
Dependencies
liggghts have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liggghts package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
