How To Install libboinc7 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libboinc7
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libboinc7
libboinc7 is:
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources.
The environment offers a series of libraries that both the user-run client and the client-invoked scientific applications depend on. With the number of cores per machine growing, and with scientific apps commonly started for every core, it is essential to have memory shared as much as possible between binaries of all projects.
There are three methods to install libboinc7
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 libboinc7 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libboinc7
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libboinc7
Install libboinc7 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libboinc7
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libboinc7
Install libboinc7 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 libboinc7
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libboinc7
How To Uninstall libboinc7 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libboinc7
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libboinc7
Uninstall libboinc7 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libboinc7
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libboinc7
Remove libboinc7 Configurations and Data
To remove libboinc7
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libboinc7
Remove libboinc7 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libboinc7
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libboinc7
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libboinc7
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.