How To Install libpetsc64-real3.15-dev 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 libpetsc64-real3.15-dev on Ubuntu.

What is `libpetsc64-real3.15-dev`

libpetsc64-real3.15-dev is:

PETSc is the “Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation”, a suite of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations. It employs the MPI standard for all message-passing communication. Several sample scientific applications, as well as various papers and talks, demonstrate the features of the PETSc libraries.

This package provides the development files for building applications using PETSc 3.15 with real numbers and 64-bit indexing.

There are three methods to install libpetsc64-real3.15-dev 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 libpetsc64-real3.15-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libpetsc64-real3.15-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libpetsc64-real3.15-dev

Install libpetsc64-real3.15-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libpetsc64-real3.15-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libpetsc64-real3.15-dev

Install libpetsc64-real3.15-dev 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 libpetsc64-real3.15-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libpetsc64-real3.15-dev

How To Uninstall libpetsc64-real3.15-dev on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libpetsc64-real3.15-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libpetsc64-real3.15-dev

Uninstall libpetsc64-real3.15-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libpetsc64-real3.15-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpetsc64-real3.15-dev

Remove libpetsc64-real3.15-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libpetsc64-real3.15-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libpetsc64-real3.15-dev

Remove libpetsc64-real3.15-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libpetsc64-real3.15-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpetsc64-real3.15-dev

Dependencies

libpetsc64-real3.15-dev have the following dependencies:

References

libpetsc64-real3.15-dev website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpetsc64-real3.15-dev package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.