How To Install liblammps-dev on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblammps-dev on Debian 12.
What is liblammps-dev
liblammps-dev is:
LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics code, and an acronym for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator.
LAMMPS has potentials for soft materials (biomolecules, polymers) and solid-state materials (metals, semiconductors) and coarse-grained or mesoscopic systems. It can be used to model atoms or, more generically, as a parallel particle simulator at the atomic, meso, or continuum scale.
LAMMPS runs on single processors or in parallel using message-passing techniques and a spatial-decomposition of the simulation domain. The code is designed to be easy to modify or extend with new functionality.
This package contains development files and headers to build applications using the LAMMPS shared library.
There are three methods to install liblammps-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 liblammps-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 liblammps-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblammps-dev
Install liblammps-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblammps-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblammps-dev
Install liblammps-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 liblammps-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblammps-dev
How To Uninstall liblammps-dev on Debian 12
To uninstall only the liblammps-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblammps-dev
Uninstall liblammps-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblammps-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblammps-dev
Remove liblammps-dev Configurations and Data
To remove liblammps-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblammps-dev
Remove liblammps-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblammps-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblammps-dev
Dependencies
liblammps-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblammps-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
