How To Install meep-mpi-default on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install meep-mpi-default on Debian 9.
What is meep-mpi-default
meep-mpi-default is:
Meep (or MEEP) is a free finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation software package developed at MIT to model electromagnetic systems.
Its features include:
- Simulation in 1d, 2d, 3d, and cylindrical coordinates.
- Distributed memory parallelism on any system supporting the MPI standard.
- Dispersive (including loss/gain) and nonlinear (Kerr & Pockels) materials. Magnetic permeability and electric/magnetic conductivities.
- PML absorbing boundaries and/or perfect conductor and/or Bloch-periodic boundary conditions.
- Exploitation of symmetries to reduce the computation size . even/odd mirror symmetries and 90/180 degree rotations.
- Complete scriptability - either via a Scheme scripting front-end (as in libctl and MPB), or callable as a C++ library.
- Field output in the HDF5 standard scientific data format, supported by many visualization tools.
- Arbitrary material and source distributions.
- Field analyses including flux spectra, frequency extraction, and energy integrals; completely programmable.
- Multi-parameter optimization, root-finding, integration, etcetera (via libctl).
This package contains the MPICH2 version of the software.
There are three methods to install meep-mpi-default on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install meep-mpi-default Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install meep-mpi-default using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install meep-mpi-default
Install meep-mpi-default Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install meep-mpi-default using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install meep-mpi-default
Install meep-mpi-default 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 meep-mpi-default using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install meep-mpi-default
How To Uninstall meep-mpi-default on Debian 9
To uninstall only the meep-mpi-default package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove meep-mpi-default
Uninstall meep-mpi-default And Its Dependencies
To uninstall meep-mpi-default and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove meep-mpi-default
Remove meep-mpi-default Configurations and Data
To remove meep-mpi-default configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge meep-mpi-default
Remove meep-mpi-default configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove meep-mpi-default configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge meep-mpi-default
Dependencies
meep-mpi-default have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install meep-mpi-default package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.