How To Install libpetsc3.18-dev-common on Debian 12

Learn how to install libpetsc3.18-dev-common on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libpetsc3.18-dev-common is Common header and support dev files for PETSc

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpetsc3.18-dev-common on Debian 12.

What is `libpetsc3.18-dev-common`

libpetsc3.18-dev-common 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 provides header and other support files common to the various dev packages (with real or complex number support) for PETSc 3.18.

There are three methods to install libpetsc3.18-dev-common 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 libpetsc3.18-dev-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libpetsc3.18-dev-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libpetsc3.18-dev-common

Install libpetsc3.18-dev-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libpetsc3.18-dev-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libpetsc3.18-dev-common

Install libpetsc3.18-dev-common 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 libpetsc3.18-dev-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libpetsc3.18-dev-common

How To Uninstall libpetsc3.18-dev-common on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libpetsc3.18-dev-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libpetsc3.18-dev-common

Uninstall libpetsc3.18-dev-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libpetsc3.18-dev-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpetsc3.18-dev-common

Remove libpetsc3.18-dev-common Configurations and Data

To remove libpetsc3.18-dev-common configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libpetsc3.18-dev-common

Remove libpetsc3.18-dev-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libpetsc3.18-dev-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpetsc3.18-dev-common

Dependencies

libpetsc3.18-dev-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpetsc3.18-dev-common package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.