How To Install sdpb 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 sdpb on Ubuntu.

What is `sdpb`

sdpb is:

SDPB is an open-source, arbitrary-precision, parallelized semidefinite program solver, designed for the conformal bootstrap. SDPB significantly outperforms less specialized solvers and should enable many new computations.

For more information, see “A Semidefinite Program Solver for the Conformal Bootstrap” at http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02033.

There are three methods to install sdpb 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 sdpb Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install sdpb

Install sdpb Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install sdpb

Install sdpb 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 sdpb using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sdpb

How To Uninstall sdpb on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove sdpb

Uninstall sdpb And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sdpb

Remove sdpb Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge sdpb

Remove sdpb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sdpb

Dependencies

sdpb have the following dependencies:

References

sdpb website

Summary

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