How To Install libcublas10 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcublas10 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libcublas10
libcublas10 is:
The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enables NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to be used for massively parallel general purpose computation.
The cuBLAS library is an implementation of BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) on top of the NVIDIA CUDA runtime. It allows the user to access the computational resources of NVIDIA Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), but does not auto-parallelize across multiple GPUs.
This package contains the cuBLAS runtime library.
There are three methods to install libcublas10 on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libcublas10 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcublas10 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcublas10
Install libcublas10 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcublas10 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcublas10
Install libcublas10 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 libcublas10 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcublas10
How To Uninstall libcublas10 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libcublas10 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcublas10
Uninstall libcublas10 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcublas10 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcublas10
Remove libcublas10 Configurations and Data
To remove libcublas10 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcublas10
Remove libcublas10 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcublas10 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcublas10
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcublas10 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.