How To Install petsc64-dev on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install petsc64-dev on Debian 12.
What is petsc64-dev
petsc64-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 installs libpetsc64-real-dev, which will always depend on the most recent version of PETSc with real number support and 64-bit indexing. So if you install it then you will get upgrades automatically.
There are three methods to install petsc64-dev 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 petsc64-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 petsc64-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install petsc64-dev
Install petsc64-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install petsc64-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install petsc64-dev
Install petsc64-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install petsc64-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install petsc64-dev
How To Uninstall petsc64-dev on Debian 12
To uninstall only the petsc64-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove petsc64-dev
Uninstall petsc64-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall petsc64-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove petsc64-dev
Remove petsc64-dev Configurations and Data
To remove petsc64-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge petsc64-dev
Remove petsc64-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove petsc64-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge petsc64-dev
Dependencies
petsc64-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install petsc64-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
