How To Install libopenblas64-0-pthread on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenblas64-0-pthread on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libopenblas64-0-pthread
libopenblas64-0-pthread 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
Configuration: USE_THREAD=1 USE_OPENMP=0 INTERFACE64=1
Package: libopenblas64-0-pthread 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: 93252 Provides: libblas64.so.3, liblapack64.so.3 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libgfortran5 (>= 8) Filename: pool/universe/o/openblas/libopenblas64-0-pthread_0.3.8+ds-1_amd64.deb Size: 8831328 MD5sum: 97efd80272c3df504330fa8c6d782b79 SHA1: 622696ff2fbe811cb8c9289de1973e6ee3635a3d SHA256: 920adffebc23e190720d579a7ddc48d9c17b15c9b659c0b68bdcfa7c07311c18 Homepage: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS Description-en: Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) library (shared lib, 64bit, pthread) 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
Configuration: USE_THREAD=1 USE_OPENMP=0 INTERFACE64=1
There are three methods to install libopenblas64-0-pthread 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 libopenblas64-0-pthread Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libopenblas64-0-pthread using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libopenblas64-0-pthread
Install libopenblas64-0-pthread Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libopenblas64-0-pthread using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libopenblas64-0-pthread
Install libopenblas64-0-pthread 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 libopenblas64-0-pthread using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libopenblas64-0-pthread
How To Uninstall libopenblas64-0-pthread on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libopenblas64-0-pthread package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libopenblas64-0-pthread
Uninstall libopenblas64-0-pthread And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libopenblas64-0-pthread and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopenblas64-0-pthread
Remove libopenblas64-0-pthread Configurations and Data
To remove libopenblas64-0-pthread configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libopenblas64-0-pthread
Remove libopenblas64-0-pthread configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libopenblas64-0-pthread configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopenblas64-0-pthread
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenblas64-0-pthread package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.