How To Install liboasis3-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboasis3-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. liboasis3-dev is Development files for OASIS3 climate model coupler

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboasis3-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is liboasis3-dev

liboasis3-dev is:

OASIS3-MCT is a library for exchanging via MPI fields between components of climate models, such as atmosphere and ocean models. In addition, OASIS can perform interpolation between different grids used by the components, via the SCRIP library.

This package contains development files for building against OASIS3.

There are three methods to install liboasis3-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 liboasis3-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 liboasis3-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liboasis3-dev

Install liboasis3-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liboasis3-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liboasis3-dev

Install liboasis3-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 liboasis3-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liboasis3-dev

How To Uninstall liboasis3-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the liboasis3-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liboasis3-dev

Uninstall liboasis3-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liboasis3-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboasis3-dev

Remove liboasis3-dev Configurations and Data

To remove liboasis3-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liboasis3-dev

Remove liboasis3-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liboasis3-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboasis3-dev

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboasis3-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.