How To Install libmeep23 on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmeep23 on Ubuntu.

What is `libmeep23`

libmeep23 is:

Meep is a free and open-source software package for electromagnetics simulation via the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method.

Its features include:

Free and open-source software under the GNU GPL.
Complete scriptability via Python, Scheme, or C++ APIs.
Simulation in 1d, 2d, 3d, and cylindrical coordinates.
Distributed memory parallelism on any system supporting MPI.
Arbitrary anisotropic electric permittivity ε and magnetic permeability μ, along with dispersive ε(ω) and μ(ω) including loss/gain, nonlinear (Kerr & Pockels) dielectric and magnetic materials, electric/magnetic conductivities σ, and saturable gain/absorption.
Perfectly-matched layer (PML) absorbing boundaries as well as Bloch-periodic and perfect-conductor boundary conditions.
Exploitation of symmetries to reduce the computation size, including even/odd mirror planes and 90°/180° rotations.
Arbitrary current sources including a guided-mode launcher.
Frequency-domain solver for finding the response to a continuous-wave (CW) source.
ε/μ and field import/export in the HDF5 data format.
GDSII file import for planar geometries.
Materials library containing predefined broadband, complex refractive indices.
Field analyses including Poynting flux, mode decomposition, near to far transformations, frequency extraction, local density of states (LDOS), modal volume, Maxwell stress tensor, arbitrary functions; completely programmable.

This package contains the library.

There are three methods to install libmeep23 on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libmeep23 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libmeep23 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libmeep23

Install libmeep23 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libmeep23 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libmeep23

Install libmeep23 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 libmeep23 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmeep23

How To Uninstall libmeep23 on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libmeep23 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmeep23

Uninstall libmeep23 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libmeep23 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmeep23

Remove libmeep23 Configurations and Data

To remove libmeep23 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libmeep23

Remove libmeep23 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libmeep23 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmeep23

Dependencies

libmeep23 have the following dependencies:

References

libmeep23 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmeep23 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.