How To Install libnvblas11 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvblas11 on Kali Linux.
What is libnvblas11
libnvblas11 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 libnvblas11 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 libnvblas11 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libnvblas11 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libnvblas11Install libnvblas11 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libnvblas11 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libnvblas11Install libnvblas11 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libnvblas11 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libnvblas11How To Uninstall libnvblas11 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libnvblas11 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libnvblas11Uninstall libnvblas11 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libnvblas11 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnvblas11Remove libnvblas11 Configurations and Data
To remove libnvblas11 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libnvblas11Remove libnvblas11 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libnvblas11 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnvblas11Dependencies
libnvblas11 have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvblas11 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
