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Quick installation of mpich:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: mpich
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install mpich
Package Details | |
| Package: | mpich |
| Version: | 3.2-7build1 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://www.mpich.org/ |
| Description: | Implementation of the MPI Message Passing Interface standard MPICH is a high-performance and widely portable implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard (both MPI-1 and MPI-2). It efficiently supports different computation and communication platforms including commodity clusters, SMPs, massively parallel systems, and high-speed networks. . This package includes the program binaries necessary to run MPICH programs. |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 17.04 |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/devel |
How to install mpich on Ubuntu 17.04?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 17.04 on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If mpich is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L mpich' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L mpich dpkg-query: package 'mpich' is not installed Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing mpich:
After system update use the following command to install mpich:
sudo apt-get install mpich
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 17.04 Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove mpich from Ubuntu 17.04?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the mpich from Ubuntu 17.04. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the mpich following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove mpich
Following command is used to remove the mpich package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove mpich
This will remove mpich and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing mpich with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge mpich
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove mpich
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with mpich package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
