How to Install and Uninstall mpich Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 02,2024

1. Install "mpich" package

This guide let you learn how to install mpich on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall mpich on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                mpich
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mpich package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: mpich
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.4.1-5ubuntu1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: extra
Section: universe/devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 649
Depends: hwloc-nox | hwloc, libmpich12 (= 3.4.1-5ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libslurm36 (>= 1.3.8)
Recommends: libmpich-dev (= 3.4.1-5ubuntu1)
Suggests: mpich-doc (= 3.4.1-5ubuntu1)
Breaks: libmpich1.0-dev (<< 3)
Replaces: libmpich1.0-dev (<< 3)
Filename: pool/universe/m/mpich/mpich_3.4.1-5ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 190336
MD5sum: 85cc70f5c48d00b7a3eb65c808b21969
SHA1: 7818143ecafccc94854808e0af799176d97f55cd
SHA256: 1444a7ec6ff61c28331522296c9d9ed3025c124172549e1fae1dba5400e71149
SHA512: e2d2b33b728a0bb3304ce17792e620ddeff7ddf09fed469ec893686ad4cf0c1290c2148a2176c031635453a78734b147fec1e1a4318575d00255d3e54a54c0f5
Homepage: https://www.mpich.org/
Description-en: Implementation of the MPI Message Passing Interface standard
MPICH is a high-performance and widely portable implementation of the
MPI-3.1 standard from the Argonne National Laboratory.
It efficiently supports different computation and communication platforms
including commodity clusters, SMPs, massively parallel systems, and
high-speed networks.
This release has all MPI 3.1 functions and features required by the standard
with the exception of support for the "external32" portable I/O format and
user-defined data representations for I/O.
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This package includes the program binaries necessary to run MPICH programs.
Description-md5: 550bc2d5b82c8e4c056dee32a584fb1a