How to Install and Uninstall libopenmpi-dev Package on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

Last updated: November 22,2024

1. Install "libopenmpi-dev" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install libopenmpi-dev on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libopenmpi-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libopenmpi-dev" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall libopenmpi-dev on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libopenmpi-dev
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libopenmpi-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

Package: libopenmpi-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.0.3-0ubuntu1
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: extra
Section: universe/libdevel
Source: openmpi
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Alastair McKinstry
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 4542
Depends: gfortran-mod-15, libopenmpi3 (= 4.0.3-0ubuntu1), openmpi-common (>= 4.0.3-0ubuntu1), libibverbs-dev (>= 1.1.7), libhwloc-dev, libevent-dev, openmpi-bin (>= 3.0.0-1)
Recommends: libcoarrays-openmpi-dev
Suggests: openmpi-doc
Conflicts: libopenmpi-dev
Breaks: lam4-dev (<< 7.1.4-4), libmpich-dev (<< 3.3~b1-5), mpich (<< 3.3~b1-5), openmpi-bin (<< 3.0.1~rc2-2)
Filename: pool/universe/o/openmpi/libopenmpi-dev_4.0.3-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 798308
MD5sum: 6f15704217b4b1fe8ab16e0a04c8d774
SHA1: 4ddc1c83d15daae3745a5e52194d9aeed1d75687
SHA256: 3cda13434f3f8b01fe271b1c70461021a8c58712f02d66090e0e67b1ee58487b
Homepage: https://www.open-mpi.org/
Description: high performance message passing library -- header files
Description-md5: b378507a7bc7ecccf3855f2ea92d5e20
Task: ubuntustudio-video