How To Install meep-mpi-default on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install meep-mpi-default on Kali Linux.

What is meep-mpi-default

meep-mpi-default is:

Meep is a free and open-source software package for electromagnetics simulation via the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method.

Its features include:

• Free and open-source software under the GNU GPL.
• Complete scriptability via Python, Scheme, or C++ APIs.
• Simulation in 1d, 2d, 3d, and cylindrical coordinates.
• Distributed memory parallelism on any system supporting MPI.
• Arbitrary anisotropic electric permittivity ? and magnetic permeability ?, along with dispersive ?(?) and ?(?) including loss/gain, nonlinear (Kerr & Pockels) dielectric and magnetic materials, electric/magnetic conductivities ?, and saturable gain/absorption.
• Perfectly-matched layer (PML) absorbing boundaries as well as Bloch-periodic and perfect-conductor boundary conditions.
• Exploitation of symmetries to reduce the computation size, including even/odd mirror planes and 90?/180? rotations.
• Arbitrary current sources including a guided-mode launcher.
• Frequency-domain solver for finding the response to a continuous-wave (CW) source.
• ?/? and field import/export in the HDF5 data format.
• GDSII file import for planar geometries.
• Materials library containing predefined broadband, complex refractive indices.
• Field analyses including Poynting flux, mode decomposition, near to far transformations, frequency extraction, local density of states (LDOS), modal volume, Maxwell stress tensor, arbitrary functions; completely programmable.

This package contains the MPICH2 version of the software.

There are three methods to install meep-mpi-default 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 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 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 meep-mpi-default using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install meep-mpi-default

How To Uninstall meep-mpi-default on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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:

• guile-2.2-libs
• libc6
• libctl7
• libgcc-s1
• libmeep-mpi-default23
• libstdc++6
• mpi-default-bin

References

• meep-mpi-default website

Summary

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