How To Install libmeep8 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmeep8
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libmeep8
libmeep8 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.
- 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 library.
There are three methods to install libmeep8
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 libmeep8 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmeep8
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmeep8
Install libmeep8 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmeep8
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmeep8
Install libmeep8 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 libmeep8
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmeep8
How To Uninstall libmeep8 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libmeep8
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmeep8
Uninstall libmeep8 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmeep8
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmeep8
Remove libmeep8 Configurations and Data
To remove libmeep8
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmeep8
Remove libmeep8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmeep8
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmeep8
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmeep8
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.