How To Install asl-doc on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install asl-doc on Ubuntu 20.04. asl-doc is documentation for ASL

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install asl-doc on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is asl-doc

asl-doc is:

The Advanced Simulation Library (ASL) is a free and open source hardware accelerated multiphysics simulation platform (and an extensible general purpose tool for solving Partial Differential Equations).

Its computational engine is written in OpenCL and utilizes matrix-free solution techniques which enable extraordinarily high performance, memory efficiency and deployability on a variety of massively parallel architectures, ranging from inexpensive FPGAs, DSPs and GPUs up to heterogeneous clusters and supercomputers. The engine is hidden entirely behind simple C++ classes, so that no OpenCL knowledge is required from application programmers. Mesh-free, immersed boundary approach allows one to move from CAD directly to simulation drastically reducing pre-processing efforts and amount of potential errors.

ASL can be used to model various coupled physical and chemical phenomena and employed in a multitude of fields: computational fluid dynamics, virtual sensing, industrial process data validation and reconciliation, image-guided surgery, computer-aided engineering, design space exploration, crystallography, etc…

This package contains the documentation.

There are three methods to install asl-doc on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install asl-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install asl-doc

Install asl-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install asl-doc

Install asl-doc 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install asl-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install asl-doc

How To Uninstall asl-doc on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the asl-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove asl-doc

Uninstall asl-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall asl-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove asl-doc

Remove asl-doc Configurations and Data

To remove asl-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge asl-doc

Remove asl-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge asl-doc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install asl-doc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.