How To Install libblacs-mpi-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libblacs-mpi-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libblacs-mpi-dev
libblacs-mpi-dev 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 MPI. There are packages for the shared libraries, for the static libraries and the development files (this one), and for test programs.
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 libblacs-mpi-dev 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 libblacs-mpi-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libblacs-mpi-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libblacs-mpi-dev
Install libblacs-mpi-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libblacs-mpi-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libblacs-mpi-dev
Install libblacs-mpi-dev 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 libblacs-mpi-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libblacs-mpi-dev
How To Uninstall libblacs-mpi-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libblacs-mpi-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libblacs-mpi-dev
Uninstall libblacs-mpi-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libblacs-mpi-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libblacs-mpi-dev
Remove libblacs-mpi-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libblacs-mpi-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libblacs-mpi-dev
Remove libblacs-mpi-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libblacs-mpi-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libblacs-mpi-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libblacs-mpi-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
