How To Install libfftw3-mpi3 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libfftw3-mpi3
on Debian 9.
What is libfftw3-mpi3
libfftw3-mpi3 is:
The FFTW library computes Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) in one or more dimensions. It is extremely fast. This package contains the shared library versions of the fftw libraries in single, double and long double precisions. Note that on some architectures double is the same as long double in which case there is no long double library.
To get the static library and the header files, you need to install libfftw3-mpi-dev. For documentation, see libfftw3-doc.
There are three methods to install libfftw3-mpi3
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libfftw3-mpi3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libfftw3-mpi3
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libfftw3-mpi3
Install libfftw3-mpi3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libfftw3-mpi3
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libfftw3-mpi3
Install libfftw3-mpi3 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 libfftw3-mpi3
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libfftw3-mpi3
How To Uninstall libfftw3-mpi3 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libfftw3-mpi3
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libfftw3-mpi3
Uninstall libfftw3-mpi3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libfftw3-mpi3
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libfftw3-mpi3
Remove libfftw3-mpi3 Configurations and Data
To remove libfftw3-mpi3
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libfftw3-mpi3
Remove libfftw3-mpi3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libfftw3-mpi3
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libfftw3-mpi3
Dependencies
libfftw3-mpi3 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libfftw3-mpi3
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.