How To Install libtrilinos-zoltan12 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtrilinos-zoltan12 on Ubuntu 18.04. libtrilinos-zoltan12 is parallel dynamic load balancing - runtime files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtrilinos-zoltan12 on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libtrilinos-zoltan12

libtrilinos-zoltan12 is:

Zoltan is a toolkit of parallel services for dynamic, unstructured, and/or adaptive simulations. Zoltan provides parallel dynamic load balancing and related services for a wide variety of applications, including finite element methods, matrix operations, particle methods, and crash simulations. Zoltan also provides parallel graph coloring, matrix ordering, unstructured communication tools, and distributed data directories.

This package contains the dynamic libraries.

There are three methods to install libtrilinos-zoltan12 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-zoltan12 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-zoltan12 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libtrilinos-zoltan12

Install libtrilinos-zoltan12 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libtrilinos-zoltan12 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libtrilinos-zoltan12

Install libtrilinos-zoltan12 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-zoltan12 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libtrilinos-zoltan12

How To Uninstall libtrilinos-zoltan12 on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libtrilinos-zoltan12 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libtrilinos-zoltan12

Uninstall libtrilinos-zoltan12 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libtrilinos-zoltan12 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtrilinos-zoltan12

Remove libtrilinos-zoltan12 Configurations and Data

To remove libtrilinos-zoltan12 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libtrilinos-zoltan12

Remove libtrilinos-zoltan12 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libtrilinos-zoltan12 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtrilinos-zoltan12

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtrilinos-zoltan12 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.