How To Install libcusparse10 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcusparse10 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libcusparse10
libcusparse10 is:
The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enables NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to be used for massively parallel general purpose computation.
The cuSPARSE library contains a set of basic linear algebra subroutines used for handling sparse matrices. It is implemented on top of the NVIDIA CUDA runtime and is designed to be called from C and C++. The library routines can be classified into four categories:
- Level 1: operations between a vector in sparse format and a vector in dense format
- Level 2: operations between a matrix in sparse format and a vector in dense format
- Level 3: operations between a matrix in sparse format and a set of vectors in dense format
- Conversion: operations that allow conversion between different matrix formats
This package contains the cuSPARSE runtime library.
There are three methods to install libcusparse10 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 libcusparse10 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcusparse10 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcusparse10
Install libcusparse10 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcusparse10 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcusparse10
Install libcusparse10 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 libcusparse10 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcusparse10
How To Uninstall libcusparse10 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libcusparse10 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcusparse10
Uninstall libcusparse10 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcusparse10 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcusparse10
Remove libcusparse10 Configurations and Data
To remove libcusparse10 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcusparse10
Remove libcusparse10 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcusparse10 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcusparse10
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcusparse10 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
