How To Install libclsparse-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libclsparse-dev
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libclsparse-dev
libclsparse-dev is:
clSPARSE provides fundamental sparse operations for OpenCL, including:
- Sparse Matrix - dense Vector multiply (SpM-dV)
- Sparse Matrix - dense Matrix multiply (SpM-dM)
- Iterative conjugate gradient solver (CG)
- Iterative biconjugate gradient stabilized solver (BiCGStab)
- Dense to CSR conversions (& converse)
- COO to CSR conversions (& converse)
- Functions to read matrix market files in COO or CSR format
This package provides the development files.
There are three methods to install libclsparse-dev
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libclsparse-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libclsparse-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libclsparse-dev
Install libclsparse-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libclsparse-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libclsparse-dev
Install libclsparse-dev 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 libclsparse-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libclsparse-dev
How To Uninstall libclsparse-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libclsparse-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libclsparse-dev
Uninstall libclsparse-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libclsparse-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libclsparse-dev
Remove libclsparse-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libclsparse-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libclsparse-dev
Remove libclsparse-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libclsparse-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libclsparse-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libclsparse-dev
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.