How To Install petsc3.7.7-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install petsc3.7.7-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is petsc3.7.7-doc
petsc3.7.7-doc 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 package contains documentation for developing with PETSc 3.7.7.
There are three methods to install petsc3.7.7-doc 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 petsc3.7.7-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 petsc3.7.7-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install petsc3.7.7-doc
Install petsc3.7.7-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install petsc3.7.7-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install petsc3.7.7-doc
Install petsc3.7.7-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install petsc3.7.7-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install petsc3.7.7-doc
How To Uninstall petsc3.7.7-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the petsc3.7.7-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove petsc3.7.7-doc
Uninstall petsc3.7.7-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall petsc3.7.7-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove petsc3.7.7-doc
Remove petsc3.7.7-doc Configurations and Data
To remove petsc3.7.7-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge petsc3.7.7-doc
Remove petsc3.7.7-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove petsc3.7.7-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge petsc3.7.7-doc
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install petsc3.7.7-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
