How To Install code-saturne on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install code-saturne on Ubuntu 18.04. code-saturne is General purpose Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install code-saturne on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is code-saturne

code-saturne is:

The basic capabilities of Code_Saturne enable the handling of either incompressible or expandable flows with or without heat transfer and turbulence. Dedicated modules are available for specific physics such as radiative heat transfer, combustion (gas, coal, heavy fuel oil, …), magneto-hydrodynamics, compressible flows, two-phase flows (Euler-Lagrange approach with two-way coupling), extensions to specific applications (e.g. Mercure_Saturne for atmospheric environment).

It runs in parallel with MPI on distributed memory machines. Developed since 1997 at EDF R&D, it is based on a co-located Finite Volume approach that accepts meshes with any type of cell (tetrahedral, hexahedral, prismatic, pyramidal, polyhedral…) and any type of grid structure (unstructured, block structured, hybrid, conforming or with hanging nodes, …).

There are three methods to install code-saturne 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 code-saturne Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install code-saturne using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install code-saturne

Install code-saturne Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install code-saturne using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install code-saturne

Install code-saturne 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 code-saturne using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install code-saturne

How To Uninstall code-saturne on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the code-saturne package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove code-saturne

Uninstall code-saturne And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove code-saturne

Remove code-saturne Configurations and Data

To remove code-saturne configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge code-saturne

Remove code-saturne configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove code-saturne configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge code-saturne

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Summary

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