How To Install mpqc-support on Debian 12

Learn how to install mpqc-support on Debian 12 with this tutorial. mpqc-support is Massively Parallel Quantum Chemistry Program (support tools)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mpqc-support on Debian 12.

What is mpqc-support

mpqc-support is:

MPQC is an ab-inito quantum chemistry program. It is especially designed to compute molecules in a highly parallelized fashion.

This package includes Perl modules to parse the output, Emacs-modes to facilitate editing mpqc files and molrender, a program to output the molecules in OOGL-format.

There are three methods to install mpqc-support 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 mpqc-support Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install mpqc-support using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mpqc-support

Install mpqc-support Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mpqc-support using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mpqc-support

Install mpqc-support 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 mpqc-support using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mpqc-support

How To Uninstall mpqc-support on Debian 12

To uninstall only the mpqc-support package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mpqc-support

Uninstall mpqc-support And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mpqc-support and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mpqc-support

Remove mpqc-support Configurations and Data

To remove mpqc-support configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mpqc-support

Remove mpqc-support configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mpqc-support configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mpqc-support

Dependencies

mpqc-support have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mpqc-support package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.