How To Install libsilo-bin on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsilo-bin on Debian 9.
What is libsilo-bin
libsilo-bin is:
This package contains a number of utilities for manipulating and viewing Silo files. Silo is a scientific data format library.
Silo supports gridless (point) meshes, structured meshes, unstructured-zoo and unstructured-arbitrary-polyhedral meshes, block structured AMR meshes, constructive solid geometry (CSG) meshes, piecewise-constant (e.g. zone-centered) and piecewise-linear (e.g. node-centered) variables defined on the node, edge, face or volume elements of meshes as well as the decomposition of meshes into arbitrary subset hierarchies including materials and mixing materials. In addition, Silo supports a wide variety of other useful objects to address various scientific computing application needs. Although the Silo library is a serial library, it has some key features which enable it to be applied quite effectively and scalable in parallel.
There are three methods to install libsilo-bin 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 libsilo-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libsilo-bin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libsilo-bin
Install libsilo-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libsilo-bin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libsilo-bin
Install libsilo-bin 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 libsilo-bin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libsilo-bin
How To Uninstall libsilo-bin on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libsilo-bin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libsilo-bin
Uninstall libsilo-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsilo-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsilo-bin
Remove libsilo-bin Configurations and Data
To remove libsilo-bin configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libsilo-bin
Remove libsilo-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsilo-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsilo-bin
Dependencies
libsilo-bin have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsilo-bin package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.