How To Install libtrilinos-ml12 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtrilinos-ml12 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libtrilinos-ml12
libtrilinos-ml12 is:
ML is Sandia’s main multigrid preconditioning package. ML is designed to solve large sparse linear systems of equations arising primarily from elliptic PDE discretizations. ML is used to define and build multigrid solvers and preconditioners, and it contains black-box classes to construct highly-scalable smoothed aggregation preconditioners. ML preconditioners have been used on thousands of processors for a variety of problems, including the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with heat and mass transfer, linear and nonlinear elasticity equations, the Maxwell equations, semiconductor equations, and more.
This package contains the dynamic libraries.
There are three methods to install libtrilinos-ml12 on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libtrilinos-ml12 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libtrilinos-ml12 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libtrilinos-ml12
Install libtrilinos-ml12 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libtrilinos-ml12 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libtrilinos-ml12
Install libtrilinos-ml12 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libtrilinos-ml12 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libtrilinos-ml12
How To Uninstall libtrilinos-ml12 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libtrilinos-ml12 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libtrilinos-ml12
Uninstall libtrilinos-ml12 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libtrilinos-ml12 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtrilinos-ml12
Remove libtrilinos-ml12 Configurations and Data
To remove libtrilinos-ml12 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libtrilinos-ml12
Remove libtrilinos-ml12 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libtrilinos-ml12 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtrilinos-ml12
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtrilinos-ml12 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
