How To Install liggghts on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liggghts
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is liggghts
liggghts is:
LIGGGHTS stands for LAMMPS improved for general granular and granular heat transfer simulations.
LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics simulator. It is widely used in the field of Molecular Dynamics. Thanks to physical and algorithmic analogies, LAMMPS is a very good platform for DEM simulations. LAMMPS offers a GRANULAR package to perform these kind of simulations. LIGGGHTS aims to improve those capability with the goal to apply it to industrial applications. Development version.
There are three methods to install liggghts
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install liggghts Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liggghts
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liggghts
Install liggghts Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liggghts
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liggghts
Install liggghts 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 liggghts
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liggghts
How To Uninstall liggghts on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the liggghts
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liggghts
Uninstall liggghts And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liggghts
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liggghts
Remove liggghts Configurations and Data
To remove liggghts
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liggghts
Remove liggghts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liggghts
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liggghts
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liggghts
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.