How To Install libspfft-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libspfft-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libspfft-dev is Sparse 3D FFT library with MPI, OpenMP, CUDA / ROCm support (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libspfft-dev on Debian 12.

What is libspfft-dev

libspfft-dev is:

SpFFT was originally intended for transforms of data with spherical cutoff in frequency domain, as required by some computational material science codes. For distributed computations, SpFFT uses a slab decomposition in space domain and pencil decomposition in frequency domain (all sparse data within a pencil must be on one rank). If desired, the library can be compiled without any parallelization (MPI, OpenMP, CUDA / ROCm).

This package contains development files.

There are three methods to install libspfft-dev 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 libspfft-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 libspfft-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libspfft-dev

Install libspfft-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libspfft-dev

Install libspfft-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 libspfft-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libspfft-dev

How To Uninstall libspfft-dev on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove libspfft-dev

Uninstall libspfft-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libspfft-dev

Remove libspfft-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libspfft-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libspfft-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

libspfft-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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