How To Install lammps-examples on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps-examples on Debian 12.
What is lammps-examples
lammps-examples 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 example scripts and benchmarks.
There are three methods to install lammps-examples on Debian 12. 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-examples 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-examples using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lammps-examples
Install lammps-examples Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lammps-examples using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lammps-examples
Install lammps-examples 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 lammps-examples using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lammps-examples
How To Uninstall lammps-examples on Debian 12
To uninstall only the lammps-examples package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lammps-examples
Uninstall lammps-examples And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lammps-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lammps-examples
Remove lammps-examples Configurations and Data
To remove lammps-examples configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lammps-examples
Remove lammps-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lammps-examples configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lammps-examples
Dependencies
lammps-examples have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps-examples package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
