How To Install wannier90 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wannier90
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is wannier90
wannier90 is:
Wannier90 is an electronic-structure software computing maximally-localized Wannier functions (MLWF). It works on top of other electronic-structure software, such as Abinit, FLEUR, and PwSCF.
This package provides Wannier90 executables.
There are three methods to install wannier90
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install wannier90 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wannier90
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wannier90
Install wannier90 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wannier90
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wannier90
Install wannier90 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 wannier90
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wannier90
How To Uninstall wannier90 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the wannier90
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wannier90
Uninstall wannier90 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wannier90
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wannier90
Remove wannier90 Configurations and Data
To remove wannier90
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wannier90
Remove wannier90 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wannier90
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wannier90
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wannier90
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.