How To Install libopenmm-plugins on Debian 12

Learn how to install libopenmm-plugins on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libopenmm-plugins is Plugins for the OpenMM library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenmm-plugins on Debian 12.

What is libopenmm-plugins

libopenmm-plugins is:

OpenMM is a software toolkit for performing molecular simulations on a range of high performance computing architectures. This package provides OpenMM plugins.

There are three methods to install libopenmm-plugins on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libopenmm-plugins Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libopenmm-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libopenmm-plugins

Install libopenmm-plugins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libopenmm-plugins

Install libopenmm-plugins 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 libopenmm-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libopenmm-plugins

How To Uninstall libopenmm-plugins on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libopenmm-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libopenmm-plugins

Uninstall libopenmm-plugins And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libopenmm-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopenmm-plugins

Remove libopenmm-plugins Configurations and Data

To remove libopenmm-plugins configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libopenmm-plugins

Remove libopenmm-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopenmm-plugins

Dependencies

libopenmm-plugins have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenmm-plugins package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.