How To Install lammps-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is lammps-doc
lammps-doc 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 documentation and examples.
There are three methods to install lammps-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install lammps-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 lammps-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lammps-doc
Install lammps-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lammps-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lammps-doc
Install lammps-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 lammps-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lammps-doc
How To Uninstall lammps-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the lammps-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lammps-doc
Uninstall lammps-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lammps-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lammps-doc
Remove lammps-doc Configurations and Data
To remove lammps-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lammps-doc
Remove lammps-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lammps-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lammps-doc
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
