How To Install libnppim10 on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnppim10 on Ubuntu 20.04. libnppim10 is NVIDIA Performance Primitives lib for Image Morphological operations

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnppim10 on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is libnppim10

libnppim10 is:

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

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

There are three methods to install libnppim10 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 libnppim10 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libnppim10 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libnppim10

Install libnppim10 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libnppim10 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libnppim10

Install libnppim10 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 libnppim10 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libnppim10

How To Uninstall libnppim10 on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the libnppim10 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libnppim10

Uninstall libnppim10 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libnppim10 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnppim10

Remove libnppim10 Configurations and Data

To remove libnppim10 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libnppim10

Remove libnppim10 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libnppim10 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnppim10

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnppim10 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.