How To Install libmeep-lam4-8 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmeep-lam4-8 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libmeep-lam4-8
libmeep-lam4-8 is:
Meep (or MEEP) is a free finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation software package developed at MIT to model electromagnetic systems.
Its features include:
- Simulation in 1d, 2d, 3d, and cylindrical coordinates.
- Distributed memory parallelism on any system supporting the MPI standard.
- Dispersive (including loss/gain) and nonlinear (Kerr & Pockels) materials. Magnetic permeability and electric/magnetic conductivities.
- PML absorbing boundaries and/or perfect conductor and/or Bloch-periodic boundary conditions.
- Exploitation of symmetries to reduce the computation size . even/odd mirror symmetries and 90/180 degree rotations.
- Complete scriptability - either via a Scheme scripting front-end (as in libctl and MPB), or callable as a C++ library.
- Field output in the HDF5 standard scientific data format, supported by many visualization tools.
- Arbitrary material and source distributions.
- Field analyses including flux spectra, frequency extraction, and energy integrals; completely programmable.
- Multi-parameter optimization, root-finding, integration, etcetera (via libctl).
This package contains the LAM4 version of the library.
There are three methods to install libmeep-lam4-8 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 libmeep-lam4-8 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmeep-lam4-8 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmeep-lam4-8
Install libmeep-lam4-8 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmeep-lam4-8 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmeep-lam4-8
Install libmeep-lam4-8 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 libmeep-lam4-8 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmeep-lam4-8
How To Uninstall libmeep-lam4-8 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libmeep-lam4-8 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmeep-lam4-8
Uninstall libmeep-lam4-8 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmeep-lam4-8 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmeep-lam4-8
Remove libmeep-lam4-8 Configurations and Data
To remove libmeep-lam4-8 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmeep-lam4-8
Remove libmeep-lam4-8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmeep-lam4-8 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmeep-lam4-8
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmeep-lam4-8 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
