How To Install mpich-doc on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mpich-doc on Debian 12.
What is mpich-doc
mpich-doc is:
MPICH is a high-performance and widely portable implementation of the MPI-3.1 standard from the Argonne National Laboratory. It efficiently supports different computation and communication platforms including commodity clusters, SMPs, massively parallel systems, and high-speed networks. This release has all MPI 3.1 functions and features required by the standard with the exception of support for the “external32” portable I/O format and user-defined data representations for I/O.
This package includes the MPICH documentation.
There are three methods to install mpich-doc on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mpich-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 mpich-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mpich-doc
Install mpich-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mpich-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mpich-doc
Install mpich-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 mpich-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mpich-doc
How To Uninstall mpich-doc on Debian 12
To uninstall only the mpich-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mpich-doc
Uninstall mpich-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mpich-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mpich-doc
Remove mpich-doc Configurations and Data
To remove mpich-doc configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mpich-doc
Remove mpich-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mpich-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mpich-doc
Dependencies
mpich-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mpich-doc package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
