How to Install and Uninstall libopenmpi-dev Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "libopenmpi-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libopenmpi-dev on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install libopenmpi-dev

2. Uninstall "libopenmpi-dev" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall libopenmpi-dev on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):

$ sudo apt remove libopenmpi-dev $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the libopenmpi-dev package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: libopenmpi-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.1.0-7ubuntu2
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: 11333
Depends: gfortran-10 | gfortran-mod-15, libopenmpi3 (= 4.1.0-7ubuntu2), openmpi-common (>= 4.1.0-7ubuntu2), libibverbs-dev (>= 1.1.7), libhwloc-dev, libevent-dev, libpmix-dev, libjs-jquery, libjs-jquery-ui, zlib1g-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 (<< 4.0.5-3)
Filename: pool/universe/o/openmpi/libopenmpi-dev_4.1.0-7ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 1049060
MD5sum: 0a370ba0c806b1324aa3bd098721661c
SHA1: 19371c1367dfe45503cf01d744799cca50282dea
SHA256: 2296bf3c86c169ee93a20224a30c83e80d945ec5ab6027cd2c20b112cb203ea3
SHA512: 0dc762804dd31f67476d83b80871502e3bc7cd333b4c0559a1f842139fa26fb98cdc5e80f8929ad05a39c7bef04bc73d9bb0b8cd2cfbce684b5b929798a1d668
Homepage: https://www.open-mpi.org/
Description-en: high performance message passing library -- header files
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-3 compliant implementation, Open
MPI offers advantages for system and software vendors, application developers
and computer science researchers.
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This package contains the header files and compiler wrappers which are needed
to compile and link programs against libopenmpi.
Description-md5: b378507a7bc7ecccf3855f2ea92d5e20