How To Install liblapacke64 on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblapacke64 on Kali Linux. liblapacke64 is Library of linear algebra routines 3 - C lib shared version (64bit-index)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblapacke64 on Kali Linux.

What is liblapacke64

liblapacke64 is:

LAPACK version 3.X is a comprehensive FORTRAN library that does linear algebra operations including matrix inversions, least squared solutions to linear sets of equations, eigenvector analysis, singular value decomposition, etc. It is a very comprehensive and reputable package that has found extensive use in the scientific community.

This package contains the Standard C language library for LAPACK. Compiled with C flag “-DHAVE_LAPACK_CONFIG_H -DLAPACK_ILP64”.

There are three methods to install liblapacke64 on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install liblapacke64 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liblapacke64 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblapacke64

Install liblapacke64 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblapacke64 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblapacke64

Install liblapacke64 Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install liblapacke64 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblapacke64

How To Uninstall liblapacke64 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the liblapacke64 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblapacke64

Uninstall liblapacke64 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblapacke64 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblapacke64

Remove liblapacke64 Configurations and Data

To remove liblapacke64 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblapacke64

Remove liblapacke64 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblapacke64 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblapacke64

Dependencies

liblapacke64 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblapacke64 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.