How To Install libcurand10 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcurand10
on Debian 12.
What is libcurand10
libcurand10 is:
The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enables NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to be used for massively parallel general purpose computation.
The cuRAND library provides facilities that focus on the simple and efficient generation of high-quality pseudorandom and quasirandom numbers. A pseudorandom sequence of numbers satisfies most of the statistical properties of a truly random sequence but is generated by a deterministic algorithm. A quasirandom sequence of n-dimensional points is generated by a deterministic algorithm designed to fill an n-dimensional space evenly.
This package contains the cuRAND runtime library.
There are three methods to install libcurand10
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libcurand10 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcurand10
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcurand10
Install libcurand10 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcurand10
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcurand10
Install libcurand10 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 libcurand10
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcurand10
How To Uninstall libcurand10 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libcurand10
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcurand10
Uninstall libcurand10 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcurand10
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcurand10
Remove libcurand10 Configurations and Data
To remove libcurand10
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcurand10
Remove libcurand10 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcurand10
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcurand10
Dependencies
libcurand10 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcurand10
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.