How To Install libopm-simulators 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 libopm-simulators on Ubuntu.

What is `libopm-simulators`

libopm-simulators is:

The Open Porous Media (OPM) software suite provides libraries and tools for modeling and simulation of porous media processes, especially for simulating CO2 sequestration and improved and enhanced oil recovery.

opm-simulators provides a research (ebos) and a production (flow) fully implicit black-oil simulators, supporting one to three phases and supporting solvent and polymer options. It uses cell centered finite volume schemes with two point flux approximation and automatic differentiation for the discretization and uses state of the art linear and nonlinear solvers. It supports standard and multi segment well models and reading and writing file in Eclipse format, a very common format used in the oil reservoir simulation community.

Package provides the library used by the research (ebos) and production (flow) fully implicit black-oil simulators.

There are three methods to install libopm-simulators 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 libopm-simulators Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libopm-simulators

Install libopm-simulators Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libopm-simulators

Install libopm-simulators 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 libopm-simulators using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libopm-simulators

How To Uninstall libopm-simulators on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libopm-simulators package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libopm-simulators

Uninstall libopm-simulators And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopm-simulators

Remove libopm-simulators Configurations and Data

To remove libopm-simulators configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libopm-simulators

Remove libopm-simulators configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopm-simulators

Dependencies

libopm-simulators have the following dependencies:

References

libopm-simulators website

Summary

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