How To Install mpb-doc on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mpb-doc
on Debian 9.
What is mpb-doc
mpb-doc is:
The MIT Photonic-Bands package is a free program for computing the band structures (dispersion relations) and electromagnetic modes of periodic dielectric structures, on both serial and parallel computers. It was developed by Steven G. Johnson at MIT in the Joannopoulos Ab Initio Physics group, and designed to study photonic crystal structures.
This package contains the documentation in HTML format.
There are three methods to install mpb-doc
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 mpb-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mpb-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mpb-doc
Install mpb-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mpb-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mpb-doc
Install mpb-doc 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 mpb-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mpb-doc
How To Uninstall mpb-doc on Debian 9
To uninstall only the mpb-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mpb-doc
Uninstall mpb-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mpb-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mpb-doc
Remove mpb-doc Configurations and Data
To remove mpb-doc
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mpb-doc
Remove mpb-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mpb-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mpb-doc
Dependencies
mpb-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mpb-doc
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.