How To Install lorene on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lorene on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is lorene
lorene is:
LORENE is a set of C++ classes to solve various problems arising in numerical relativity, and more generally in computational astrophysics. It provides tools to solve partial differential equations by means of multi-domain spectral methods.
This metapackage depends on all of the LORENE software components. The reference guide is available in the lorene-doc package.
There are three methods to install lorene 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 lorene Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lorene using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lorene
Install lorene Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lorene using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lorene
Install lorene 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 lorene using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lorene
How To Uninstall lorene on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the lorene package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lorene
Uninstall lorene And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lorene and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lorene
Remove lorene Configurations and Data
To remove lorene configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lorene
Remove lorene configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lorene configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lorene
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lorene package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.