How To Install libhmat-oss3 on Debian 12

Learn how to install libhmat-oss3 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libhmat-oss3 is hierarchical matrix C/C++ library (shared library)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhmat-oss3 on Debian 12.

What is libhmat-oss3

libhmat-oss3 is:

This library allows one to compute hierarchical matrices, which are tools from numerical mathematics used to approximate non-sparse matrices.

The implementation uses lower-upper (LU) decompositions.

This package contains the shared library.

There are three methods to install libhmat-oss3 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 libhmat-oss3 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libhmat-oss3 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libhmat-oss3

Install libhmat-oss3 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libhmat-oss3 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libhmat-oss3

Install libhmat-oss3 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 libhmat-oss3 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libhmat-oss3

How To Uninstall libhmat-oss3 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libhmat-oss3 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libhmat-oss3

Uninstall libhmat-oss3 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libhmat-oss3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhmat-oss3

Remove libhmat-oss3 Configurations and Data

To remove libhmat-oss3 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libhmat-oss3

Remove libhmat-oss3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libhmat-oss3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhmat-oss3

Dependencies

libhmat-oss3 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhmat-oss3 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.