How To Install libnvblas10 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvblas10 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libnvblas10
libnvblas10 is:
The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enables NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to be used for massively parallel general purpose computation.
The NVBLAS Library is a GPU-accelerated Library that implements BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms). It can accelerate most BLAS Level-3 routines by dynamically routing BLAS calls to one or more NVIDIA GPUs present in the system, when the characteristics of the call make it to speedup on a GPU.
There are three methods to install libnvblas10 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 libnvblas10 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libnvblas10 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libnvblas10
Install libnvblas10 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libnvblas10 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libnvblas10
Install libnvblas10 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 libnvblas10 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libnvblas10
How To Uninstall libnvblas10 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libnvblas10 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libnvblas10
Uninstall libnvblas10 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libnvblas10 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnvblas10
Remove libnvblas10 Configurations and Data
To remove libnvblas10 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libnvblas10
Remove libnvblas10 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libnvblas10 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnvblas10
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvblas10 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.