How to Install and Uninstall openmpi-bin Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 03,2024

1. Install "openmpi-bin" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install openmpi-bin on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                openmpi-bin
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "openmpi-bin" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall openmpi-bin on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                openmpi-bin
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the openmpi-bin package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: openmpi-bin
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 410
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Alastair McKinstry
Architecture: amd64
Source: openmpi
Version: 1.10.2-8ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8), libopenmpi1.10, openmpi-common (= 1.10.2-8ubuntu1)
Suggests: gfortran, openmpi-checkpoint
Conflicts: openmpi-bin
Filename: pool/universe/o/openmpi/openmpi-bin_1.10.2-8ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 100074
MD5sum: 8b02a632ae618aa971c42ea0914148b8
SHA1: 64cad76ece4994ef23ac62bd2210c07c7bd81804
SHA256: 632e8c119affcbce7603c27bce33eef46fbd8ffb9aa04f2e78b49c5ac1bdefea
Description-en: high performance message passing library -- binaries
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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Features:
* Full MPI-2 standards conformance
* Thread safety and concurrency
* Dynamic process spawning
* High performance on all platforms
* Reliable and fast job management
* Network and process fault tolerance
* Support network heterogeneity
* Single library supports all networks
* Run-time instrumentation
* Many job schedulers supported
* Internationalized error messages
* Component-based design, documented APIs
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This package contains the Open MPI utility programs.
Description-md5: 3766094d9bbf1b8d522f89c53eed9162
Homepage: http://www.open-mpi.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu