How To Install libopenblas-base on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenblas-base on Ubuntu 20.04. libopenblas-base is Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) library (transitional) Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) library (transitional)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenblas-base on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is libopenblas-base

libopenblas-base is:

OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.

Unlike Atlas, OpenBLAS provides a multiple architecture library.

All kernel will be included in the library and dynamically switched to the best architecture at run time (only on amd64, arm64, i386 and ppc64el).

For more information on how to rebuild locally OpenBLAS, see the section: “Building Optimized OpenBLAS Packages on your ARCH” in README.Debian

This is a transitional dummy package, which can be safely removed.

Package: libopenblas-base Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.3.8+ds-1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: universe/libs Source: openblas Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Science Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 34 Depends: libopenblas0 Breaks: libatlas3-base (« 3.10.3-4~), libblas3 (« 3.7.1-2~), liblapack3 (« 3.7.1-2~), libopenblas-dev (« 0.2.20+ds-3~) Filename: pool/universe/o/openblas/libopenblas-base_0.3.8+ds-1_amd64.deb Size: 4748 MD5sum: 219e628b6b2ea9bdf8e811d75f8b7108 SHA1: 0564cfee63620b56366a782bfaf990ca44e8e824 SHA256: 74bc7a90f1deb2d8d5d985404dfb94fe1e1efbbffb405b5f9f11de0eda949202 Homepage: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS Description-en: Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) library (transitional) OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.

Unlike Atlas, OpenBLAS provides a multiple architecture library.

All kernel will be included in the library and dynamically switched to the best architecture at run time (only on amd64, arm64, i386 and ppc64el).

For more information on how to rebuild locally OpenBLAS, see the section: “Building Optimized OpenBLAS Packages on your ARCH” in README.Debian

This is a transitional dummy package, which can be safely removed.

There are three methods to install libopenblas-base 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 libopenblas-base Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libopenblas-base

Install libopenblas-base Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libopenblas-base

Install libopenblas-base 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 libopenblas-base using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libopenblas-base

How To Uninstall libopenblas-base on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the libopenblas-base package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libopenblas-base

Uninstall libopenblas-base And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopenblas-base

Remove libopenblas-base Configurations and Data

To remove libopenblas-base configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libopenblas-base

Remove libopenblas-base configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopenblas-base

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Summary

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