How To Install libphtools2-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install libphtools2-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libphtools2-dev is [Physics] General purpose Monte Carlo routines (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libphtools2-dev on Debian 10.

What is libphtools2-dev

libphtools2-dev is:

This library contains three main routines. FOWL allows calculation of phase space distributions arising from particle interactions, generated in a Lorentz-invariant way. GENBOD is an N-body event generator, taking as input the center-of-mass energy, number and masses of outgoing particles. WICO traces a ray geometrically in a “Winston Cone” light concentrator.

This is the static version of the library.

There are three methods to install libphtools2-dev on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libphtools2-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 libphtools2-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libphtools2-dev

Install libphtools2-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libphtools2-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libphtools2-dev

Install libphtools2-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libphtools2-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libphtools2-dev

How To Uninstall libphtools2-dev on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libphtools2-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libphtools2-dev

Uninstall libphtools2-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libphtools2-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libphtools2-dev

Remove libphtools2-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libphtools2-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libphtools2-dev

Remove libphtools2-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libphtools2-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libphtools2-dev

Dependencies

libphtools2-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libphtools2-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.