How To Install meep 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 meep on Ubuntu.
What is meep
meep 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 software.
There are three methods to install meep 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 meep Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install meep using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install meep
Install meep Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install meep using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install meep
Install meep 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 meep using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install meep
How To Uninstall meep on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the meep package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove meep
Uninstall meep And Its Dependencies
To uninstall meep and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove meep
Remove meep Configurations and Data
To remove meep configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge meep
Remove meep configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove meep configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge meep
Dependencies
meep have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install meep package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.