How To Install libnppial10 on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnppial10 on Ubuntu 20.04. libnppial10 is NVIDIA Performance Primitives lib for Image Arithmetic and Logic

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnppial10 on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is libnppial10

libnppial10 is:

NVIDIA NPP is a library of functions for performing CUDA accelerated processing.

This package contains the NVIDIA Performance Primitives runtime library for Image Arithmetic and Logic operations, which is a sub-library of nppi.

There are three methods to install libnppial10 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 libnppial10 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libnppial10 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libnppial10

Install libnppial10 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libnppial10 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libnppial10

Install libnppial10 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 libnppial10 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libnppial10

How To Uninstall libnppial10 on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the libnppial10 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libnppial10

Uninstall libnppial10 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libnppial10 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnppial10

Remove libnppial10 Configurations and Data

To remove libnppial10 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libnppial10

Remove libnppial10 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libnppial10 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnppial10

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnppial10 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.