How To Install libmetis5 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmetis5
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libmetis5
libmetis5 is:
METIS is a set of serial programs for partitioning graphs, partitioning finite element meshes, and producing fill reducing orderings for sparse matrices. The algorithms implemented in METIS are based on the multilevel recursive-bisection, multilevel k-way, and multi-constraint partitioning schemes. Task: xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-photography, ubuntustudio-graphics
There are three methods to install libmetis5
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 libmetis5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmetis5
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmetis5
Install libmetis5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmetis5
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmetis5
Install libmetis5 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 libmetis5
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmetis5
How To Uninstall libmetis5 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libmetis5
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmetis5
Uninstall libmetis5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmetis5
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmetis5
Remove libmetis5 Configurations and Data
To remove libmetis5
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmetis5
Remove libmetis5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmetis5
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmetis5
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmetis5
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.