How To Install libmeep-mpich2-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmeep-mpich2-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libmeep-mpich2-dev
libmeep-mpich2-dev 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 some files for developing software linked to MPICH2.
There are three methods to install libmeep-mpich2-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 libmeep-mpich2-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 libmeep-mpich2-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmeep-mpich2-dev
Install libmeep-mpich2-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmeep-mpich2-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmeep-mpich2-dev
Install libmeep-mpich2-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 libmeep-mpich2-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmeep-mpich2-dev
How To Uninstall libmeep-mpich2-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libmeep-mpich2-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmeep-mpich2-dev
Uninstall libmeep-mpich2-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmeep-mpich2-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmeep-mpich2-dev
Remove libmeep-mpich2-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libmeep-mpich2-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmeep-mpich2-dev
Remove libmeep-mpich2-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmeep-mpich2-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmeep-mpich2-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmeep-mpich2-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
