Install openmpi1.5-bin on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install openmpi1.5-bin

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Quick installation of openmpi1.5-bin:

Step 1: Update system:

	sudo apt-get update

Step 2: Install: openmpi1.5-bin

Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:

	sudo apt-get install openmpi1.5-bin

Package Details
Package:	openmpi1.5-bin
Version:	1.5.4-0ubuntu1
Maintainer:	Ubuntu Developers
Home page:	http://www.open-mpi.org/
Description:	high performance message passing library -- binaries 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-2 compliant implementation, Open MPI offers advantages for system and software vendors, application developers and computer science researchers. . Features: * Full MPI-2 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. Homepage: http://www.open-mpi.org/
Distro:	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release:
Repo/Section:	universe/net

How to install openmpi1.5-bin 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 openmpi1.5-bin is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L openmpi1.5-bin' will give followin error.

deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L openmpi1.5-bin
Package `openmpi1.5-bin' 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 openmpi1.5-bin:

After system update use the following command to install openmpi1.5-bin:

sudo apt-get install openmpi1.5-bin

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 openmpi1.5-bin from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the openmpi1.5-bin 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 openmpi1.5-bin following command is used:

sudo apt-get remove  openmpi1.5-bin

Following command is used to remove the openmpi1.5-bin package along with its dependencies:

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove openmpi1.5-bin

This will remove openmpi1.5-bin and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.

Completely removing openmpi1.5-bin with all configuration files:

Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:

sudo apt-get purge openmpi1.5-bin

or you can use following command also:

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove openmpi1.5-bin

Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with openmpi1.5-bin package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.