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

Last updated: May 06,2024

1. Install "petsc-dev" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install petsc-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall petsc-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: petsc-dev
Priority: extra
Section: universe/libdevel
Installed-Size: 22
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers
Architecture: all
Source: petsc
Version: 3.6.2.dfsg1-3ubuntu1
Depends: libpetsc3.6.2-dev
Suggests: libpetsc3.6.2-dbg
Filename: pool/universe/p/petsc/petsc-dev_3.6.2.dfsg1-3ubuntu1_all.deb
Size: 2330
MD5sum: e7ae4d32e6a0f9bd735a0d9147616322
SHA1: 3fbc15c3fd8cb970fe17216b37dacec940c814da
SHA256: 352bd9a44e490320c939b7650b1bc53995a9905dc5466a60b000e413bfb62fb6
Description-en: Virtual package depending on latest PETSc development package
PETSc is the "Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation", a suite
of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of
scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations. It employs
the MPI standard for all message-passing communication. Several sample
scientific applications, as well as various papers and talks, demonstrate the
features of the PETSc libraries.
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This metapackage will always depend on the most recent version of petscX-dev
(X=version), so if you install it then you will get upgrades automatically.
Description-md5: e77ffa65782a9dd9665c29d7753e1807
Homepage: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu