How To Install libpetsc-real3.12 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpetsc-real3.12
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libpetsc-real3.12
libpetsc-real3.12 is:
PETSc is the “Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation”, a suite of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations. It employs the MPI standard for all message-passing communication. Several sample scientific applications, as well as various papers and talks, demonstrate the features of the PETSc libraries.
This package contains the PETSc 3.12 shared library for real numbers.
It provides soname libpetsc-real3.12
There are three methods to install libpetsc-real3.12
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 libpetsc-real3.12 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libpetsc-real3.12
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libpetsc-real3.12
Install libpetsc-real3.12 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libpetsc-real3.12
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libpetsc-real3.12
Install libpetsc-real3.12 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 libpetsc-real3.12
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libpetsc-real3.12
How To Uninstall libpetsc-real3.12 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libpetsc-real3.12
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libpetsc-real3.12
Uninstall libpetsc-real3.12 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libpetsc-real3.12
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpetsc-real3.12
Remove libpetsc-real3.12 Configurations and Data
To remove libpetsc-real3.12
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libpetsc-real3.12
Remove libpetsc-real3.12 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libpetsc-real3.12
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpetsc-real3.12
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpetsc-real3.12
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.