How To Install tricensus-mpi on Ubuntu 22.04

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install regina-normal-mpi

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is tricensus-mpi and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Ubuntu 22.04. This guide was written specifically with a server running Ubuntu 22.04 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install tricensus-mpi on Ubuntu 22.04. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install tricensus-mpi using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt-get database, You can install tricensus-mpi using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install regina-normal-mpi

Install tricensus-mpi using apt

Because tricensus-mpi is available in Ubuntu 22.04’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install tricensus-mpi using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install regina-normal-mpi

Install tricensus-mpi using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu 22.04. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install tricensus-mpi by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install regina-normal-mpi

How to upgrade (update) a single package tricensus-mpi using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the tricensus-mpi, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install regina-normal-mpi

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install regina-normal-mpi

How To Uninstall tricensus-mpi from Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the tricensus-mpi package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove regina-normal-mpi

Uninstall tricensus-mpi and all its dependencies

To uninstall tricensus-mpi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove regina-normal-mpi

Remove tricensus-mpi with all configurations and data

To remove tricensus-mpi configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge regina-normal-mpi

Remove tricensus-mpi completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to tricensus-mpi package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge regina-normal-mpi

Extra info and code examples

Regina is a suite of mathematical software for 3-manifold topologists. This package contains the components of Regina designed to run large parallel computations on a high-performance cluster using MPI. These components are built against the default implementation of MPI, and must be run under the default MPI runtime environment (as found in the package mpi-default-bin). Regina focuses on the study of 3-manifold triangulations and normal surfaces. Other highlights include angle structures, census enumeration, combinatorial recognition of triangulations, and high-level tasks such as 3-sphere recognition and connected sum decomposition. For Regina's standard graphical user interface, install the package regina-normal.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install tricensus-mpi using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the tricensus-mpi from Ubuntu 22.04.

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