How To Install libclfft-doc on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install libclfft-doc on Debian 11. libclfft-doc is documentation for clFFT

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libclfft-doc on Debian 11.

What is libclfft-doc

libclfft-doc is:

The clFFT library is an open source OpenCL library implementation of discrete Fast Fourier Transforms, which:

  • Provides a fast and accurate platform for calculating discrete FFTs.
  • Works on CPU or GPU backends.
  • Supports in-place or out-of-place transforms.
  • Supports 1D, 2D, and 3D transforms with a batch size that can be greater than 1.
  • Supports planar (real and complex components in separate arrays) and interleaved (real and complex components as a pair contiguous in memory) formats.
  • Supports dimension lengths that can be any mix of powers of 2, 3, and 5.
  • Supports single and double precision floating point formats.

This package provides the documentation.

There are three methods to install libclfft-doc on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libclfft-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libclfft-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libclfft-doc

Install libclfft-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libclfft-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libclfft-doc

Install libclfft-doc 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libclfft-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libclfft-doc

How To Uninstall libclfft-doc on Debian 11

To uninstall only the libclfft-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libclfft-doc

Uninstall libclfft-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libclfft-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libclfft-doc

Remove libclfft-doc Configurations and Data

To remove libclfft-doc configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libclfft-doc

Remove libclfft-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libclfft-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libclfft-doc

Dependencies

libclfft-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libclfft-doc package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.