How To Install libmusic-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install libmusic-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libmusic-dev is Multi-Simulation Coordinator for MPI – Development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmusic-dev on Debian 10.

What is libmusic-dev

libmusic-dev is:

MUSIC allows spike events and continuous time series to be communicated between parallel applications within the same MPI job in a cluster computer. Typical usage cases are connecting models developed for different simulators and connecting a parallel simulator to a post-processing tool.

This package contains the header files which are needed to compile and link programs against libmusic.

There are three methods to install libmusic-dev on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libmusic-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 libmusic-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libmusic-dev

Install libmusic-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libmusic-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libmusic-dev

Install libmusic-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libmusic-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmusic-dev

How To Uninstall libmusic-dev on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libmusic-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmusic-dev

Uninstall libmusic-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libmusic-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmusic-dev

Remove libmusic-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libmusic-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libmusic-dev

Remove libmusic-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libmusic-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmusic-dev

Dependencies

libmusic-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmusic-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.