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Quick installation of mpb-mpi:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: mpb-mpi
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install mpb-mpi
Package Details | |
| Package: | mpb-mpi |
| Version: | 1.4.2-17 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/ |
| Description: | MIT Photonic-Bands, parallel (mpich) version The MIT Photonic-Bands package is a free program for computing the band structures (dispersion relations) and electromagnetic modes of periodic dielectric structures, on both serial and parallel computers. It was developed by Steven G. Johnson at MIT in the Joannopoulos Ab Initio Physics group, and designed to study photonic crystal structures. . This package contains a parallel version of MPB, using the mpich implementation of the MPI protocol. It allows for calculations on clusters of computers. . Note that you must install libhdf5-mpich if your cluster doesn't have a common filesystem available on all nodes. Homepage: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/ |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/science |
How to install mpb-mpi on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If mpb-mpi is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L mpb-mpi' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L mpb-mpi Package `mpb-mpi' is not installed. Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing mpb-mpi:
After system update use the following command to install mpb-mpi:
sudo apt-get install mpb-mpi
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove mpb-mpi from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the mpb-mpi from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the mpb-mpi following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove mpb-mpi
Following command is used to remove the mpb-mpi package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove mpb-mpi
This will remove mpb-mpi and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing mpb-mpi with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge mpb-mpi
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove mpb-mpi
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with mpb-mpi package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
