How To Install liblorene-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblorene-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is liblorene-dev
liblorene-dev is:
LORENE is a set of C++ classes to solve various problems arising in numerical relativity, and more generally in computational astrophysics. It provides tools to solve partial differential equations by means of multi-domain spectral methods.
This package contains the static libraries and include files necessary to build LORENE codes or applications using LORENE.
Compiling LORENE codes (including some that are shipped in the lorene-codes-src package) often requires a Fortran compiler. LORENE is configured to use gfortran.
There are three methods to install liblorene-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install liblorene-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 liblorene-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblorene-dev
Install liblorene-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblorene-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblorene-dev
Install liblorene-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 liblorene-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblorene-dev
How To Uninstall liblorene-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the liblorene-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblorene-dev
Uninstall liblorene-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblorene-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblorene-dev
Remove liblorene-dev Configurations and Data
To remove liblorene-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblorene-dev
Remove liblorene-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblorene-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblorene-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblorene-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.