How To Install lammps-data on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps-data on Kali Linux.

What is lammps-data

lammps-data is:

LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics code, and an acronym for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator.

LAMMPS has potentials for soft materials (biomolecules, polymers) and solid-state materials (metals, semiconductors) and coarse-grained or mesoscopic systems. It can be used to model atoms or, more generically, as a parallel particle simulator at the atomic, meso, or continuum scale.

LAMMPS runs on single processors or in parallel using message-passing techniques and a spatial-decomposition of the simulation domain. The code is designed to be easy to modify or extend with new functionality.

The package contains data (potentials)

There are three methods to install lammps-data on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install lammps-data Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install lammps-data

Install lammps-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lammps-data

Install lammps-data Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install lammps-data

How To Uninstall lammps-data on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the lammps-data package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove lammps-data

Uninstall lammps-data And Its Dependencies

To uninstall lammps-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lammps-data

Remove lammps-data Configurations and Data

To remove lammps-data configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lammps-data

Remove lammps-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lammps-data

Dependencies

lammps-data have the following dependencies:

References

• lammps-data website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps-data package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.