How To Install openmpi-bin on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install openmpi-bin on Kali Linux. openmpi-bin is high performance message passing library – binaries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openmpi-bin on Kali Linux.

What is openmpi-bin

openmpi-bin is:

Open MPI is a project combining technologies and resources from several other projects (FT-MPI, LA-MPI, LAM/MPI, and PACX-MPI) in order to build the best MPI library available. A completely new MPI-3.1 compliant implementation, Open MPI offers advantages for system and software vendors, application developers and computer science researchers.

Features:

  • Full MPI-3.1 standards conformance
  • Thread safety and concurrency
  • Dynamic process spawning
  • High performance on all platforms
  • Reliable and fast job management
  • Network and process fault tolerance
  • Support network heterogeneity
  • Single library supports all networks
  • Run-time instrumentation
  • Many job schedulers supported
  • Internationalized error messages
  • Component-based design, documented APIs

This package contains the Open MPI utility programs.

There are three methods to install openmpi-bin 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 openmpi-bin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install openmpi-bin

Install openmpi-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install openmpi-bin

Install openmpi-bin 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 openmpi-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install openmpi-bin

How To Uninstall openmpi-bin on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the openmpi-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove openmpi-bin

Uninstall openmpi-bin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall openmpi-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove openmpi-bin

Remove openmpi-bin Configurations and Data

To remove openmpi-bin configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge openmpi-bin

Remove openmpi-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openmpi-bin

Dependencies

openmpi-bin have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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