How To Install openmpi-bin 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 openmpi-bin on Ubuntu.

What is `openmpi-bin`

openmpi-bin is:

Open MPI is a project combining technologies and resources from several other projects (FT-MPI, LA-MPI, LAM/MPI, and PACX-MPI) in order to build the best MPI library available. A completely new MPI-3.1 compliant implementation, Open MPI offers advantages for system and software vendors, application developers and computer science researchers.

Features:

Full MPI-3.1 standards conformance
Thread safety and concurrency
Dynamic process spawning
High performance on all platforms
Reliable and fast job management
Network and process fault tolerance
Support network heterogeneity
Single library supports all networks
Run-time instrumentation
Many job schedulers supported
Internationalized error messages
Component-based design, documented APIs

This package contains the Open MPI utility programs.

There are three methods to install openmpi-bin 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 openmpi-bin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install openmpi-bin

Install openmpi-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install openmpi-bin

Install openmpi-bin 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 openmpi-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install openmpi-bin

How To Uninstall openmpi-bin on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the openmpi-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove openmpi-bin

Uninstall openmpi-bin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove openmpi-bin

Remove openmpi-bin Configurations and Data

To remove openmpi-bin configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge openmpi-bin

Remove openmpi-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openmpi-bin

Dependencies

openmpi-bin have the following dependencies:

References

openmpi-bin website

Summary

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