How To Install blacs-pvm-test on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install blacs-pvm-test
on Debian 9.
What is blacs-pvm-test
blacs-pvm-test is:
The BLACS project is an ongoing investigation whose purpose is to create a linear algebra oriented message passing interface that may be implemented efficiently and uniformly across a large range of distributed memory platforms.
You can choose between an implementation based on MPI or PVM. This package uses PVM.
There are packages for the shared libraries, for the static libraries and the development files and for test programs (this one).
Most users do not need to install this package directly because it is used as a high level driver for the communication in the ScaLAPACK packages. Therefore, it is installed when installing ScaLAPACK. ScaLAPACK is a parallel version of LAPACK and is used on Beowulf type clusters.
There are three methods to install blacs-pvm-test
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 blacs-pvm-test Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install blacs-pvm-test
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install blacs-pvm-test
Install blacs-pvm-test Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install blacs-pvm-test
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install blacs-pvm-test
Install blacs-pvm-test 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 blacs-pvm-test
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install blacs-pvm-test
How To Uninstall blacs-pvm-test on Debian 9
To uninstall only the blacs-pvm-test
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove blacs-pvm-test
Uninstall blacs-pvm-test And Its Dependencies
To uninstall blacs-pvm-test
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove blacs-pvm-test
Remove blacs-pvm-test Configurations and Data
To remove blacs-pvm-test
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge blacs-pvm-test
Remove blacs-pvm-test configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove blacs-pvm-test
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge blacs-pvm-test
Dependencies
blacs-pvm-test have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install blacs-pvm-test
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.