How To Install libcublaslt10 on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcublaslt10 on Ubuntu 20.04. libcublaslt10 is NVIDIA cuBLASLt Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcublaslt10 on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is libcublaslt10

libcublaslt10 is:

The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enables NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to be used for massively parallel general purpose computation.

The cuBLASLt library is a lightweight GEMM library with a flexible API and tensor core support for INT8 inputs and FP16 CGEMM split-complex matrix multiplication.

This package contains the cuBLASLt runtime library.

There are three methods to install libcublaslt10 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 libcublaslt10 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libcublaslt10 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libcublaslt10

Install libcublaslt10 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libcublaslt10 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libcublaslt10

Install libcublaslt10 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 libcublaslt10 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libcublaslt10

How To Uninstall libcublaslt10 on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the libcublaslt10 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libcublaslt10

Uninstall libcublaslt10 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libcublaslt10 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcublaslt10

Remove libcublaslt10 Configurations and Data

To remove libcublaslt10 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libcublaslt10

Remove libcublaslt10 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libcublaslt10 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcublaslt10

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcublaslt10 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.