How To Install libopenturns-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenturns-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libopenturns-dev
libopenturns-dev is:
OpenTURNS is a powerful and generic tool to treat and quantify uncertainties in numerical simulations in design, optimization and control. It allows both sensitivity and reliability analysis studies:
- defining the outputs of interest and decision criterion;
- quantify and model the source of uncertainties;
- propagate uncertainties and/or analyse sensitivity and
- rank the sources of uncertainty
OpenTURNS is a large project with more than 300 C++ classes which uses well known and supported software such as R for the statistical methods and BLAS/LAPACK for the linear algebra.
This package provides the OpenTURNS headers should be used if one wants to link its application against the library.
There are three methods to install libopenturns-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 libopenturns-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 libopenturns-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libopenturns-dev
Install libopenturns-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libopenturns-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libopenturns-dev
Install libopenturns-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 libopenturns-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libopenturns-dev
How To Uninstall libopenturns-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libopenturns-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libopenturns-dev
Uninstall libopenturns-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libopenturns-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopenturns-dev
Remove libopenturns-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libopenturns-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libopenturns-dev
Remove libopenturns-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libopenturns-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopenturns-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenturns-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
