How to Install and Uninstall mpich Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: March 15,2025

You can also install and uninstall the mpich on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "mpich" package

This guide let you learn how to install mpich on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "mpich" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall mpich on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mpich package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: mpich
Source: mpich (4.0.2-3)
Version: 4.0.2-3+b1
Installed-Size: 922
Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: libmpich1.0-dev (<< 3)
Depends: hwloc-nox | hwloc, libmpich12 (= 4.0.2-3+b1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libhwloc15 (>= 2.9.0), libslurm38 (>= 1.3.8)
Recommends: libmpich-dev (= 4.0.2-3+b1)
Suggests: mpich-doc (= 4.0.2-3)
Breaks: libmpich1.0-dev (<< 3)
Description: Implementation of the MPI Message Passing Interface standard
Description-md5: 550bc2d5b82c8e4c056dee32a584fb1a
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.mpich.org/
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mpich/mpich_4.0.2-3+b1_amd64.deb
Size: 229600
MD5sum: da8e29dd44a75ab0223569a8094b6be4
SHA256: 099067eed37e08e6ef9bd8b2ee925c1f04fe52089e87fec1ed56f504e51626b6