How To Install libfetk-dev on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libfetk-dev on Debian 12.
What is libfetk-dev
libfetk-dev is:
The Finite Element ToolKit (FETK) is a collection of adaptive finite element method (AFEM) software libraries and tools for solving coupled systems of nonlinear geometric partial differential equations (PDE). The FETK libraries and tools are written in an object-oriented form of ANSI-C and in C++, and include a collection of standard numerical libraries (PUNC), a stand-alone high-quality surface and volume simplex mesh generator (GAMer), a stand-alone networked polygon display tool (SG), a general nonlinear finite element modeling kernel (MC)
This package provides a fork of FETK intended for use by APBS (Adaptive Poisson Boltzmann Solver).
The FETK component MALOC (Minimal Abstraction Layer for Object-oriented C/C++ programs) is provided separately by libmaloc-dev.
This package contains the development headers to build against libapbs_* shared libraries.
There are three methods to install libfetk-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 libfetk-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 libfetk-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libfetk-dev
Install libfetk-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libfetk-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libfetk-dev
Install libfetk-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 libfetk-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libfetk-dev
How To Uninstall libfetk-dev on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libfetk-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libfetk-dev
Uninstall libfetk-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libfetk-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libfetk-dev
Remove libfetk-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libfetk-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libfetk-dev
Remove libfetk-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libfetk-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libfetk-dev
Dependencies
libfetk-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libfetk-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
