How To Install petsc-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install petsc-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is petsc-dev
petsc-dev is:
PETSc is the “Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation”, a suite of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations. It employs the MPI standard for all message-passing communication. Several sample scientific applications, as well as various papers and talks, demonstrate the features of the PETSc libraries.
This metapackage will always depend on the most recent version of petscX-dev (X=version), so if you install it then you will get upgrades automatically.
There are three methods to install petsc-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install petsc-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install petsc-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install petsc-dev
Install petsc-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install petsc-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install petsc-dev
Install petsc-dev 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install petsc-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install petsc-dev
How To Uninstall petsc-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the petsc-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove petsc-dev
Uninstall petsc-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall petsc-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove petsc-dev
Remove petsc-dev Configurations and Data
To remove petsc-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge petsc-dev
Remove petsc-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove petsc-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge petsc-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install petsc-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
