How To Install asl-tools on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install asl-tools on Debian 9.
What is asl-tools
asl-tools 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 command-line tools.
There are three methods to install asl-tools on Debian 9. 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-tools 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-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install asl-tools
Install asl-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install asl-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install asl-tools
Install asl-tools 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 asl-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install asl-tools
How To Uninstall asl-tools on Debian 9
To uninstall only the asl-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove asl-tools
Uninstall asl-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall asl-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove asl-tools
Remove asl-tools Configurations and Data
To remove asl-tools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge asl-tools
Remove asl-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove asl-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge asl-tools
Dependencies
asl-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install asl-tools package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.