How To Install libclfft2 on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libclfft2
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libclfft2
libclfft2 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 shared library.
There are three methods to install libclfft2
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libclfft2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libclfft2
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libclfft2
Install libclfft2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libclfft2
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libclfft2
Install libclfft2 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. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libclfft2
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libclfft2
How To Uninstall libclfft2 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libclfft2
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libclfft2
Uninstall libclfft2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libclfft2
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libclfft2
Remove libclfft2 Configurations and Data
To remove libclfft2
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libclfft2
Remove libclfft2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libclfft2
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libclfft2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libclfft2
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.