How To Install python3-escript-mpi on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-escript-mpi
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python3-escript-mpi
python3-escript-mpi is:
Escript is a programming tool for implementing mathematical models in Python using the finite element method (FEM). Because users do not access the data structures it is very easy to use and scripts can run on desktop computers as well as highly parallel supercomputer without changes. Application areas for escript include earth mantle convection, geophysical inversion, earthquakes, porous media flow, reactive transport, plate subduction, erosion, and tsunamis.
Scripts can be executed in parallel (on varying numbers of threads or nodes) without any special modifications.
Escript now includes the esys.downunder module for 3D inversion of geophysical data sets. The current version supports gravity, magnetic and joint inversion.
This package contains the commands and libraries for Python3 with both OpenMP threading and MPI multiprocess support.
There are three methods to install python3-escript-mpi
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 python3-escript-mpi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-escript-mpi
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-escript-mpi
Install python3-escript-mpi Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-escript-mpi
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-escript-mpi
Install python3-escript-mpi 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 python3-escript-mpi
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-escript-mpi
How To Uninstall python3-escript-mpi on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python3-escript-mpi
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-escript-mpi
Uninstall python3-escript-mpi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-escript-mpi
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-escript-mpi
Remove python3-escript-mpi Configurations and Data
To remove python3-escript-mpi
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-escript-mpi
Remove python3-escript-mpi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-escript-mpi
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-escript-mpi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-escript-mpi
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.