How to Install and Uninstall libopenmpi-dev Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "libopenmpi-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libopenmpi-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall libopenmpi-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: libopenmpi-dev
Priority: extra
Section: universe/libdevel
Installed-Size: 4212
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Alastair McKinstry
Architecture: amd64
Source: openmpi
Version: 1.10.2-8ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8), libopenmpi1.10 (= 1.10.2-8ubuntu1), openmpi-common (= 1.10.2-8ubuntu1), libibverbs-dev (>= 1.1.7), libhwloc-dev
Suggests: opennmpi-doc
Conflicts: libopenmpi-dev, openmpi-bin (<= 1.2.4-0), openmpi-dev
Filename: pool/universe/o/openmpi/libopenmpi-dev_1.10.2-8ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 537416
MD5sum: 6e9a4b60ccf89bdc1d6a24234c38436b
SHA1: 045bb03ef00cca3f07bc4a89955ecde236013c2e
SHA256: ff983a6a48c14429fec4a59401bda87498410bef0ace114233dc64778b09f81f
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-2 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: 8e5ff602ff3f7813a4a4cf41dfc27331
Homepage: http://www.open-mpi.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu