Information about the package, exciting, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The exciting package is designed for, A full-potential all-electron density-functional-theory package.
Package Name:
exciting
Summary:
A full-potential all-electron density-functional-theory package
Description:
exciting is a full-potential all-electron density-functional-theory (DFT) package implementing the families of linearized augmented planewave (LAPW) methods. It can be applied to all kinds of materials, irrespective of the atomic species involved, and also allows for exploring the physics of core electrons. A particular focus are excited states within many-body perturbation theory (MBPT).
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
12
Release:
6.el6
Size:
1.7 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the exciting package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install exciting
This command will install exciting on the server.
yum remove exciting
This command will un-install exciting on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove exciting, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove exciting
This command will un-install exciting on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove exciting when using the -y flag.
yum update exciting
This command will update exciting to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove exciting, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update exciting
This command will update exciting to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove exciting when using the -y flag.
yum info exciting
This command will show you core information about the exciting package.
yum deplist exciting
This command will show you the dependencies for exciting. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update exciting
This command will check if there is an update waiting on exciting. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.