How To Install libscalapack-pvm1 on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libscalapack-pvm1 on Debian 9.

What is libscalapack-pvm1

libscalapack-pvm1 is:

ScaLAPACK is the parallel version of LAPACK and is used on Beowulf type clusters.

You can choose between an implementation based on MPI or PVM. This package uses PVM.

There are packages for the shared libraries (this one), for the static libraries and the development files and for test programs.

Also included: PBLAS, Parallel Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms.

There are three methods to install libscalapack-pvm1 on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libscalapack-pvm1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libscalapack-pvm1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libscalapack-pvm1

Install libscalapack-pvm1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libscalapack-pvm1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libscalapack-pvm1

Install libscalapack-pvm1 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 libscalapack-pvm1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libscalapack-pvm1

How To Uninstall libscalapack-pvm1 on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libscalapack-pvm1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libscalapack-pvm1

Uninstall libscalapack-pvm1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libscalapack-pvm1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libscalapack-pvm1

Remove libscalapack-pvm1 Configurations and Data

To remove libscalapack-pvm1 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libscalapack-pvm1

Remove libscalapack-pvm1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libscalapack-pvm1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libscalapack-pvm1

Dependencies

libscalapack-pvm1 have the following dependencies:

• blacs1-pvm
• libblas3
• libc6
• libgfortran3
• liblapack3
• libpvm3

References

• libscalapack-pvm1 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libscalapack-pvm1 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.