How To Install libinhomog-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libinhomog-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libinhomog-dev
libinhomog-dev is:
The inhomog library calculates average cosmological expansion. The library provides Raychaudhuri integration of cosmological domain-wise average scale factor evolution using an analytical formula for kinematical backreaction Q_D evolution. The inhomog main program illustrates biscale examples. The library routine lib/Omega_D_precalc.c is callable by RAMSES using ramses-scalav (see Roukema 2017, arXiv:1706.06179).
This package contains the static libraries and header files that you will need if you wish to compile a program that uses inhomog as a library.
There are three methods to install libinhomog-dev 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 libinhomog-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 libinhomog-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libinhomog-dev
Install libinhomog-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libinhomog-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libinhomog-dev
Install libinhomog-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libinhomog-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libinhomog-dev
How To Uninstall libinhomog-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libinhomog-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libinhomog-dev
Uninstall libinhomog-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libinhomog-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libinhomog-dev
Remove libinhomog-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libinhomog-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libinhomog-dev
Remove libinhomog-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libinhomog-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libinhomog-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libinhomog-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
