How To Install liggghts on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install liggghts on Kali Linux. liggghts is Open Source DEM Particle Simulation Software.

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liggghts on Kali Linux.

What is liggghts

liggghts is:

LIGGGHTS stands for LAMMPS improved for general granular and granular heat transfer simulations.

LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics simulator. It is widely used in the field of Molecular Dynamics. Thanks to physical and algorithmic analogies, LAMMPS is a very good platform for DEM simulations. LAMMPS offers a GRANULAR package to perform these kind of simulations. LIGGGHTS aims to improve those capability with the goal to apply it to industrial applications. Development version.

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

Install liggghts Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install liggghts

Install liggghts Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liggghts using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liggghts

Install liggghts Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install liggghts using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liggghts

How To Uninstall liggghts on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the liggghts package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liggghts

Uninstall liggghts And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liggghts and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liggghts

Remove liggghts Configurations and Data

To remove liggghts configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liggghts

Remove liggghts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liggghts

Dependencies

liggghts have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liggghts package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.