How To Install python3-meep on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-meep on Debian 12.
What is python3-meep
python3-meep is:
Meep is a free and open-source software package for electromagnetics simulation via the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method.
Its features include:
- Free and open-source software under the GNU GPL.
- Complete scriptability via Python, Scheme, or C++ APIs.
- Simulation in 1d, 2d, 3d, and cylindrical coordinates.
- Distributed memory parallelism on any system supporting MPI.
- Arbitrary anisotropic electric permittivity ? and magnetic permeability ?, along with dispersive ?(?) and ?(?) including loss/gain, nonlinear (Kerr & Pockels) dielectric and magnetic materials, electric/magnetic conductivities ?, and saturable gain/absorption.
- Perfectly-matched layer (PML) absorbing boundaries as well as Bloch-periodic and perfect-conductor boundary conditions.
- Exploitation of symmetries to reduce the computation size, including even/odd mirror planes and 90?/180? rotations.
- Arbitrary current sources including a guided-mode launcher.
- Frequency-domain solver for finding the response to a continuous-wave (CW) source.
- ?/? and field import/export in the HDF5 data format.
- GDSII file import for planar geometries.
- Materials library containing predefined broadband, complex refractive indices.
- Field analyses including Poynting flux, mode decomposition, near to far transformations, frequency extraction, local density of states (LDOS), modal volume, Maxwell stress tensor, arbitrary functions; completely programmable.
This package contains the Python binding
There are three methods to install python3-meep 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 python3-meep 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-meep using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-meep
Install python3-meep Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-meep using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-meep
Install python3-meep 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 python3-meep using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-meep
How To Uninstall python3-meep on Debian 12
To uninstall only the python3-meep package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-meep
Uninstall python3-meep And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-meep and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-meep
Remove python3-meep Configurations and Data
To remove python3-meep configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-meep
Remove python3-meep configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-meep configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-meep
Dependencies
python3-meep have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-meep package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
