How To Install blacs-test-common on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install blacs-test-common on Debian 9.
What is blacs-test-common
blacs-test-common 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 provides test data for all BLACS packages (MPI and PVM versions).
Most users do not need to install this package directly because it is installed when installing the test programs for any BLACS package.
There are three methods to install blacs-test-common 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-test-common 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-test-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install blacs-test-common
Install blacs-test-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install blacs-test-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install blacs-test-common
Install blacs-test-common 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-test-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install blacs-test-common
How To Uninstall blacs-test-common on Debian 9
To uninstall only the blacs-test-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove blacs-test-common
Uninstall blacs-test-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall blacs-test-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove blacs-test-common
Remove blacs-test-common Configurations and Data
To remove blacs-test-common configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge blacs-test-common
Remove blacs-test-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove blacs-test-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge blacs-test-common
Dependencies
blacs-test-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install blacs-test-common package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.