How To Install openmpi-bin on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openmpi-bin on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is openmpi-bin
openmpi-bin is:
Open MPI is a project combining technologies and resources from several other projects (FT-MPI, LA-MPI, LAM/MPI, and PACX-MPI) in order to build the best MPI library available. A completely new MPI-3.1 compliant implementation, Open MPI offers advantages for system and software vendors, application developers and computer science researchers.
Features:
- Full MPI-3.1 standards conformance
- Thread safety and concurrency
- Dynamic process spawning
- High performance on all platforms
- Reliable and fast job management
- Network and process fault tolerance
- Support network heterogeneity
- Single library supports all networks
- Run-time instrumentation
- Many job schedulers supported
- Internationalized error messages
- Component-based design, documented APIs
This package contains the Open MPI utility programs. Task: ubuntustudio-video
There are three methods to install openmpi-bin 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 openmpi-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install openmpi-bin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openmpi-bin
Install openmpi-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openmpi-bin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openmpi-bin
Install openmpi-bin 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 openmpi-bin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openmpi-bin
How To Uninstall openmpi-bin on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the openmpi-bin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openmpi-bin
Uninstall openmpi-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openmpi-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openmpi-bin
Remove openmpi-bin Configurations and Data
To remove openmpi-bin configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openmpi-bin
Remove openmpi-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openmpi-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openmpi-bin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openmpi-bin package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
