How To Install blacs-test-common on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install blacs-test-common on Ubuntu 18.04. blacs-test-common is Test data for BLACS testers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blacs-test-common on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is blacs-test-common

blacs-test-common is:

The BLACS project is an ongoing investigation whose purpose is to create a linear algebra oriented message passing interface that may be implemented efficiently and uniformly across a large range of distributed memory platforms.

You can choose between an implementation based on MPI or PVM. This package provides test data for all BLACS packages (MPI and PVM versions).

Most users do not need to install this package directly because it is installed when installing the test programs for any BLACS package.

There are three methods to install blacs-test-common 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 blacs-test-common Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install blacs-test-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install blacs-test-common

Install blacs-test-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install blacs-test-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install blacs-test-common

Install blacs-test-common 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 blacs-test-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install blacs-test-common

How To Uninstall blacs-test-common on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the blacs-test-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove blacs-test-common

Uninstall blacs-test-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall blacs-test-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove blacs-test-common

Remove blacs-test-common Configurations and Data

To remove blacs-test-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge blacs-test-common

Remove blacs-test-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove blacs-test-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge blacs-test-common

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blacs-test-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.