How To Install libdolfin64-dev on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdolfin64-dev
on Debian 12.
What is libdolfin64-dev
libdolfin64-dev is:
DOLFIN is the Python and C++ interface of the FEniCS project for the automated solution of differential equations, providing a consistent PSE (Problem Solving Environment) for solving ordinary and partial differential equations. Key features include a simple, consistent and intuitive object-oriented API; automatic and efficient evaluation of variational forms; automatic and efficient assembly of linear systems; and support for general families of finite elements.
This package contains the development files for DOLFIN built against 64-bit PETSc (64-bit indexing).
This is the legacy version of DOLFIN, you may want to install the next-generation libdolfinx-dev (DOLFIN-X) instead.
There are three methods to install libdolfin64-dev
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 libdolfin64-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 libdolfin64-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libdolfin64-dev
Install libdolfin64-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libdolfin64-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libdolfin64-dev
Install libdolfin64-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libdolfin64-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libdolfin64-dev
How To Uninstall libdolfin64-dev on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libdolfin64-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libdolfin64-dev
Uninstall libdolfin64-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libdolfin64-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdolfin64-dev
Remove libdolfin64-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libdolfin64-dev
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libdolfin64-dev
Remove libdolfin64-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libdolfin64-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdolfin64-dev
Dependencies
libdolfin64-dev have the following dependencies:
- libdolfin-dev-common
- cmake
- g++
- libboost-chrono-dev
- libboost-dev
- libboost-filesystem-dev
- libboost-iostreams-dev
- libboost-math-dev
- libboost-mpi-dev
- libboost-program-options-dev
- libboost-serialization-dev
- libboost-thread-dev
- libboost-timer-dev
- libdolfin64-2019.2
- libeigen3-dev
- libhdf5-mpi-dev
- libsuitesparse-dev
- libscotch-dev
- libxml2-dev
- pkg-config
- python3-ffc
- python3-ffc
- libpetsc64-real3.18-dev
- libslepc64-real3.18-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdolfin64-dev
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.